<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">As far as I know (which isn't very far, with web stuff), changing things on that level requires somehow getting into CSS.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For instance, you can see what it looks like with other widths directly from Firefox (fun, didn't know you could do this):</div><div class="">- go to the page</div><div class="">- hit F12</div><div class="">- click around on the left to find the <div> that corresponds to the part you care about</div><div class="">- look in the middle column to find the piece of CSS that's controlling things (here, something called .col-md-3)</div><div class="">- edit the CSS - in attached screenshot I change the max width of that sidebar to 5%.</div><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>But, I want to avoid having to do things on the level of CSS and HTML - I think that should be done as a collective effort in maintaining the theme (and Sphinx itself).</div><div>If we really care enough about the width of that sidebar, we'll create a fork of the theme, add a setting for it, and try to get it merged to the theme's release branch.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><img apple-inline="yes" id="E59141E2-2640-453B-A841-8BB4DB82DD42" width="640" height="360" src="cid:43264D81-60FB-4918-9149-C55A6E9FD439" class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 23.04.2021 um 23:12 schrieb Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@petsc.dev" class="">bsmith@petsc.dev</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div> Thanks. Even if we just leave it is there a way to make it a little "skinnier", it seems very wide in my default browser.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 23, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Patrick Sanan <<a href="mailto:patrick.sanan@gmail.com" class="">patrick.sanan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">It is possible to put things there, as in this link which is both documentation and example:</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.html#the-left-sidebar" class="">https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.html#the-left-sidebar</a></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Other projects using this theme have the mostly-empty left sidebar:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://numpy.org/doc/stable/" class="">https://numpy.org/doc/stable/</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" class="">https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(They also have fancier landing pages, though, which we have been discussing).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">It goes away on mobile devices or small windows, at least.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 23.04.2021 um 19:21 schrieb Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@petsc.dev" class="">bsmith@petsc.dev</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""> There is a lot of empty space on the left side of the website pages; under the Search slot. Does this empty left side need to be so large, seems to waste a lot of the screen?<br class=""><br class=""> Barry<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>