Closed vepain closed 1 year ago
hey @vepain! thanks for your input! I am not sure about this. Wouldn't this be something that is configured by the sphinx template that you use? you could add some custom css, here is an example: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/adding-custom-css.html
Thank you @Chilipp for your answer!
It seems that only a few customisations are allowed by furo
theme (see https://pradyunsg.me/furo/customisation/).
Moreover, it seems that tables are centered by default by Sphinx, and I can't find a way to align local table not by default (see https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/4550)
In the html source file, the tables produced by .. autosummary::
directive are under the following class:
<table class="autosummary longtable docutils align-default">
...
</table>
Here the align-default
key seems to be the issue.
Why not allow for one .. autosummary::
directive detail the table alignment like this?
.. autosummary::
:alig: left
...
that would produce something like this:
<table class="autosummary longtable docutils align-left">
...
</table>
I don't have enough CSS and HTML knowledge, so perhaps I miss some points.
The idea is not to change the align-default
(that will change all the alignment globally).
And even though I wanted to do this, I can't find in Sphinx doc a way to change the default table alignment.
Thank you for your help!
Sorry for the second message,
I find https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#tables where the directive .. table::
has the option :align: left
(e.g.)
Why not get inspired of that for the table generation of .. autosummary::
directive?
the problem here @vepain is that the .. autosummary
directive that is used here does not come from the autodocsumm
extension. it is coming from the builtin sphinx extension autosummary
. autodocsumm
is just using this directive. So if you want to change anything on the underlying autosummary
directive, you'd need to head over to the main sphinx repo at https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/ and open an issue there. When this option is implemented, in autosummary
, we can add an additional option here
my suggestion would have been to add a custom css file
html_css_files = [
'css/custom.css',
]
and then in custom.css
have something like
table.autosummary {
/** add some alignment css here **/
}
My bad, I confused your extension with the sphinx builtin. Thank you for your help, I will write an issue at the right place... Have a nice day!
Now behaviour
When
autosummary
is used as a directive and not as a directive option, the alignment of the table is centered.Example
gives
Asked feature
Is it possible to left-align the table, for example, with an option under
autosummary
directive please?Versions
python 3.9.5
sphinx 5.3.0
autodocsumm 0.2.9
furo 2022.9.29
Thank you for your work!