the RTD flyout create y-scrolling in the primary sidebar

[12rambau]

When the RTD flyout is captured by the primary sidebar there is an extra y-scrolling that appears on the right even thought the content of the sidebar itself is not requiring one.

[choldgraf]

Here's one suggestion to fix this:

Make the RTD flyout a position: fixed container, so that it is always on the bottom of the screen, and no longer flows with the content in the sidebar. This would make it permanently visible, and would also avoid awkward problems with the "announcement banner" causing the sidebar to be hidden.

A few considerations:

• We would need to make sure its width was always the same width as primary-sidebar.
• We'd need to shrink the footer so that it only filled the space of the article content, rather than the whole screen.

@12rambau do you think it's important that we get this resolved before the next release?

[choldgraf]

I intend on removing this from the 0.13 milestone in the next day or so, so that it doesn't block a release, unless somebody asks me to hold off.

[12rambau]

We'd need to shrink the footer so that it only filled the space of the article content, rather than the whole screen.

I'm -1 on this. At some point we wanted to get closer to ng-sphinx and it's not respecting the template you send once:

I think it make perfect sense for themes like jupyter books but here the sidebars are on & off it will be confusable with the footer-article

[choldgraf]

Yeah I agree with your analysis as well. The only problem is that I have no idea how we can solve this in any other way :-)

[12rambau]

I recently changed computer and I'm not seeing this issue anymore on v0.13.0 nor v0.12.0. Is it still the case for you ?

[12rambau]

My guess is that it disapeared as a side effect of one of our layout PR. Closing for now, if anyone sees it again don't hesitate to reopen or comment this issue