How do make sidebar apply only to a specific page

[haxfn]

Description

When I define a sidebar in quarto.yml and reference it in /index.qmd, the sidebar is unexpectedly applied to all pages in the project, not just the index page.

Current configuration:

• In _quarto.yml: I've defined a sidebar with id: gyan
• In index.qmd: I've set sidebar: gyan in the YAML front matter

Expected behavior: The sidebar should only appear on the index page.
Actual behavior: The sidebar appears on all project pages.

my-project/
├── quarto.yml
├── index.qmd
├── page1.qmd
├── page2.qmd
└── myfolder/innerpage.qmd

Any suggestions for controlling sidebar inheritance or limiting the sidebar to specific pages would be appreciated!

[mcanouil]

Could you share a small self-contained "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a complete Quarto document or a Git repository? The goal is to make it as easy as possible for us to recreate your problem so that we can fix it: please help us help you! Thanks.

For reference, the documentation on sidebar: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#side-navigation

A single sidebar item without an id or title will result in a global sidebar applied to all pages. A sidebar with an id or title will only be applied to pages within the contents of the sidebar or pages that specify the sidebar id.

To use a specific sidebar on a page or a group of pages, specify the sidebar ID in the front matter of the page or in the _metadata.yml file. For example, to include the sidebar with id: tutorials on a page, add the following to the page’s front matter:

---

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R	Python
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[mcanouil]

Again, please read fully the documentation:

A sidebar with an id or title will only be applied to pages within the contents of the sidebar

That's the third time.
Your sidebar contains three pages thus those three pages do get the sidebar as documented.

[haxfn]

ok, i understand it now. my sidebar definition has three elements in it inside _quarto.yml, and these three elements get the side bar.

How do I show a sidebar with multiple-pages only on a single-page?

[mcanouil]

How do I show a sidebar with multiple-pages only on a single-page?

I don't think you can and I must say I don't even understand why the content of a sidebar would not have the sidebar even though the sidebar is there to navigate through its content.

Edit: I think you have to explicitly opt out of the sidebar for each pages in the content using sidebar: false https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#hiding-navigation

[haxfn]

think you have to explicitly opt out of the sidebar for each pages in the content using sidebar: false

ok, I guessed so.

I don't think you can and I must say I don't even understand why the content of a sidebar would not have the sidebar even though the sidebar is there to navigate through its content.

I don't want sub pages to have inter-navigation, i want the subpages to hyperlink to root for navigation.

So, the flow is: define sidebar with id in _quarto.yml . but just defining sidebar won't show it on the children pages. for that you need to write sidebar: id-name atleast in one child page's frontmatter?

I mean for example if I remove sidebar: gyan from index.qmd, although I still have that sidebar's 3 three pages declaration in the _quarto.yml, quarto won't render the sidebar on any of them.

edit: note: this is weird

[haxfn]

@mcanouil thanks

[haxfn]

About the use case: I honestly have 4-5 level deep hierarchies, I want the side bar to "start" from the current level each time i move in a new hierarchy, ig similar to entering a directory in a file manager.

[haxfn]

one way i achieve this right now is to have many sidebar definitions with id's, and have a specific directory level sidebar id in the frontmatter of its index.qmd

[haxfn]

i notice that I had incomplete understanding and infact mis-understanding of the way sidebar with ids worked.