Uncollapsed sidebar items are a bit confusing

[rachmari]

Issue overview

When I open the actions help docs page, I thought the categories in the sidebar were arbitrarily uncollapsed, but I learned that the first three categories are uncollapsed by default.

I didn't find it very intuitive why the first three categories were uncollapsed when viewing the page. I actually assumed that maybe the browser was caching some previous configuration of my viewing of that page or something. 🤷‍♀ I find it much easier to see the hierarchy of the docs when all of the categories are collapsed or just the active category uncollapsed.

Products affected by this issue

• Dotcom (all products)
  • GitHub Free
  • GitHub Pro
  • GitHub Team
• GitHub Enterprise Cloud
• GitHub Enterprise Server (Versions: )
• API
• Desktop

/cc @github/product-docs-engineering

[zeke]

I agree. There was some discussion about it here: https://github.com/github/help-docs/pull/12289#issuecomment-588553415

[runleonarun]

I'd like to 👍 this. When I was using the Actions docs recently, I had a hard time navigating them because the sidebar menus start out open so I didn't see all of the content under the open sections st first. It also left me a little overwhelmed with all of the articles when I really wanted to look at the high-level ones to drill down into the section I needed (which was Reference all the way at the bottom of the list). I actually had to leave the menu and had to search to find what I needed.

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[jwargo]

@sezhan1229 Can you please take a look at this one? It still works the same way, and I need your opinion whether we want to change this.

[sezhan1229]

Yes, It needs to be fixed, but I would put it at an upper level, how do we want to enhance the overall navigation in docs.

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open 60 days with no activity.

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open 60 days with no activity.

[janiceilene]

@chiedo Should we close this one out as we work towards a redesign?

[chiedo]

Yes!