Feature #1366 : make right sidebar independent from main content

[nandanchandra]

Issue : #1366

Hello maintainers, I have updated the scrollable functionality to sidebar-right .

[sabderemane]

Why did you remove the width of the scrollbar here ?

[nandanchandra]

Hey @sabderemane,
Setting the width to 0 hides the default scrollbar, as the UI is not that good for the default one.

[thibaudcolas]

We should never hide the scrollbar. That’s how users can tell the area is scrollable to start with, and lots of people interact with the scrollbar to scroll.

[thibaudcolas]

This doesn’t look quite right to me. The pattern we want here has different characteristics:

• We’d want two scrollable areas – the sidebar, and the rest of the page. This has 3 areas as-is: sidebar, main area, rest of the page.
• We’d also want the sidebar to be sticky I believe.
• And I’m not convinced this is something it makes sense to implement site-wide (at least with the current site design & content model). For documentation sites where the sidebar is only navigation, it makes sense. In the case of Django we also sometimes have regular content in the sidebar.

All in all I think this is the type of large design change it’d make more sense to consider as part of the djangoproject.com redesign (for reference: survey form, I don’t have a better ref).

[thibaudcolas]

This produces the same result with Sass and vanilla CSS computation so I don’t understand this change?

[thibaudcolas]

We should never hide the scrollbar. That’s how users can tell the area is scrollable to start with, and lots of people interact with the scrollbar to scroll.