[PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation: html: show sections in the sidebar
From: Antonin Godard
Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 12:07:44 EST
The current sidebar in the HTML version of the documentation does not
display the section titles because the toctree directives in the
top-level index.rst document do not contain ":caption:" properties.
Replacing the current section titles by ":caption:" properties would not
allow having text between those and the table of contents.
To workaround this issue, add the ":caption:" properties in the toctree
calls which makes them show up in the sidebar, but hide them from the
index page with a custom CSS addition.
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/index.rst | 8 ++++++++
Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst
index c0cf79a87c3a..a9eba8187de6 100644
--- a/Documentation/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/index.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ community and getting your work upstream.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
+ :caption: Working with the development community
Development process <process/development-process>
Submitting patches <process/submitting-patches>
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ kernel.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
+ :caption: Internal API manuals
Core API <core-api/index>
Driver APIs <driver-api/index>
@@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ Various other manuals with useful information for all kernel developers.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
+ :caption: Development tools and processes
Licensing rules <process/license-rules>
Writing documentation <doc-guide/index>
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
+ :caption: User-oriented documentation
Administration <admin-guide/index>
Build system <kbuild/index>
@@ -88,6 +92,7 @@ platform firmware.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
+ :caption: Firmware-related documentation
Firmware <firmware-guide/index>
Firmware and Devicetree <devicetree/index>
@@ -98,6 +103,7 @@ Architecture-specific documentation
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+ :caption: Architecture-specific documentation
CPU architectures <arch/index>
@@ -111,6 +117,7 @@ to reStructuredText format, or are simply too old.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
+ :caption: Other documentation
Unsorted documentation <staging/index>
@@ -120,6 +127,7 @@ Translations
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+ :caption: Translations
Translations <translations/index>
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css b/Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css
index 5aa0a1ed9864..0576d4fcb2a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ div.kerneltoc li.current ul { margin-left: 0; }
div.kerneltoc { background-color: #eeeeee; }
div.kerneltoc li.current ul { background-color: white; }
+/*
+ * Hide toctree captions on the welcome page, they should only be shown in the
+ * sidebar.
+ */
+section#the-linux-kernel-documentation p.caption { display: none; }
+
/*
* The CSS magic to toggle the contents on small screens.
*/
--
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