Sidebar
Creating a sidebar is useful to:
- Group multiple related documents
- Display a sidebar on each of those documents
- Provide paginated navigation, with next/previous button
To use sidebars on your Docusaurus site:
- Define a file that exports a dictionary of sidebar objects.
- Pass this object into the
@docusaurus/plugin-docsplugin directly or via@docusaurus/preset-classic.
export default {
presets: [
[
'@docusaurus/preset-classic',
{
docs: {
sidebarPath: './sidebars.js',
},
},
],
],
};
This section serves as an overview of miscellaneous features of the doc sidebar. In the following sections, we will more systematically introduce the following concepts:
📄️ Sidebar items
We have introduced three types of item types in the example in the previous section autogenerated, which we will explain in detail later.
📄️ Autogenerated
Docusaurus can create a sidebar automatically from your filesystem structure: each folder creates a sidebar category, and each file creates a doc link.
📄️ Using multiple sidebars
You can create a sidebar for each set of Markdown files that you want to group together.
Default sidebar
If the sidebarPath is unspecified, Docusaurus automatically generates a sidebar for you, by using the filesystem structure of the docs folder:
export default {
mySidebar: [
{
type: 'autogenerated',
dirName: '.', // generate sidebar from the docs folder (or versioned_docs/<version>)
},
],
};
You can also define your sidebars explicitly.
Sidebar object
A sidebar at its crux is a hierarchy of categories, doc links, and other hyperlinks.
type Sidebar =
// Normal syntax
| SidebarItem[]
// Shorthand syntax
| {[categoryLabel: string]: SidebarItem[]};
For example:
export default {
mySidebar: [
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Getting Started',
items: [
{
type: 'doc',
id: 'doc1',
},
],
},
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Docusaurus',
items: [
{
type: 'doc',
id: 'doc2',
},
{
type: 'doc',
id: 'doc3',
},
],
},
{
type: 'link',
label: 'Learn more',
href: 'https://example.com',
},
],
};
This is a sidebars file that exports one sidebar, called mySidebar. It has three top-level items: two categories and one external link. Within each category, there are a few doc links.
A sidebars file can contain multiple sidebar objects, identified by their object keys.
type SidebarsFile = {
[sidebarID: string]: Sidebar;
};
Theme configuration
Hideable sidebar
By enabling the themeConfig.docs.sidebar.hideable option, you can make the entire sidebar hideable, allowing users to better focus on the content. This is especially useful when content is consumed on medium-sized screens (e.g. tablets).
export default {
themeConfig: {
docs: {
sidebar: {
hideable: true,
},
},
},
};
Auto-collapse sidebar categories
The themeConfig.docs.sidebar.autoCollapseCategories option would collapse all sibling categories when expanding one category. This saves the user from having too many categories open and helps them focus on the selected section.
export default {
themeConfig: {
docs: {
sidebar: {
autoCollapseCategories: true,
},
},
},
};
Passing custom props
To pass in custom props to a sidebar item, add the optional customProps object to any of the items. This is useful to apply site customizations by swizzling React components rendering sidebar items.
{
type: 'doc',
id: 'doc1',
customProps: {
badges: ['new', 'green'],
featured: true,
},
};
Sidebar Breadcrumbs
By default, breadcrumbs are rendered at the top, using the "sidebar path" of the current page.
This behavior can be disabled with plugin options:
export default {
presets: [
[
'@docusaurus/preset-classic',
{
docs: {
breadcrumbs: false,
},
},
],
],
};
Complex sidebars example
A real-world example from the Docusaurus site:
import type {SidebarsConfig} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-docs';
const sidebars: SidebarsConfig = {
docs: [
'introduction',
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Getting Started',
link: {
type: 'generated-index',
},
collapsed: false,
items: [
'installation',
'configuration',
'playground',
'typescript-support',
],
},
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Guides',
link: {
type: 'generated-index',
title: 'Docusaurus Guides',
description:
"Let's learn about the most important Docusaurus concepts!",
keywords: ['guides'],
image: '/img/docusaurus.png',
},
items: [
'guides/creating-pages',
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Docs',
link: {
type: 'doc',
id: 'guides/docs/introduction',
},
items: [
'guides/docs/create-doc',
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Sidebar',
link: {
type: 'doc',
id: 'guides/docs/sidebar/index',
},
items: [
'guides/docs/sidebar/items',
'guides/docs/sidebar/autogenerated',
'guides/docs/sidebar/multiple-sidebars',
],
},
'guides/docs/versioning',
'guides/docs/multi-instance',
],
},
'blog',
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Markdown Features',
link: {
type: 'doc',
id: 'guides/markdown-features/introduction',
},
items: [
'guides/markdown-features/react',
'guides/markdown-features/tabs',
'guides/markdown-features/code-blocks',
'guides/markdown-features/admonitions',
'guides/markdown-features/toc',
'guides/markdown-features/assets',
'guides/markdown-features/links',
'guides/markdown-features/plugins',
'guides/markdown-features/math-equations',
'guides/markdown-features/diagrams',
'guides/markdown-features/head-metadata',
],
},
'styling-layout',
'swizzling',
'static-assets',
'search',
'browser-support',
'seo',
'using-plugins',
'deployment',
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Internationalization',
link: {type: 'doc', id: 'i18n/introduction'},
items: [
{
type: 'doc',
id: 'i18n/tutorial',
label: 'Tutorial',
},
{
type: 'doc',
id: 'i18n/git',
label: 'Using Git',
},
{
type: 'doc',
id: 'i18n/crowdin',
label: 'Using Crowdin',
},
],
},
'guides/whats-next',
],
},
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Advanced Guides',
link: {type: 'doc', id: 'advanced/index'},
items: [
'advanced/architecture',
'advanced/plugins',
'advanced/routing',
'advanced/ssg',
'advanced/client',
],
},
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Upgrading',
link: {
type: 'doc',
id: 'migration/index',
},
items: [
'migration/v3',
{
type: 'category',
label: 'To Docusaurus v2',
items: [
'migration/v2/migration-overview',
'migration/v2/migration-automated',
'migration/v2/migration-manual',
'migration/v2/migration-versioned-sites',
'migration/v2/migration-translated-sites',
],
},
],
},
],
api: [
'cli',
'docusaurus-core',
{
type: 'autogenerated',
dirName: 'api',
},
],
};
export default sidebars;