When I enable the sidebar navigation, the sidebar shows by default and the first time a user clicks the menu icon, it will hide the sidebar. Can I reverse this setup, so the landing page shows in full width on initial page load and when a user clicks the menu icon it will reveal the sidebar?

Hello Nolo, I’ve made a component to achieve this. I hope it helps :slightly_smiling_face: https://github.com/VaperinaDEV/closed-sidebar-by-default

This is somewhat similar as the sidebar seems to be controlled by aria-expanded attribute [image] Way to default aria-expanded true for quoted internal links? Support I’d like to show the content of a quoted post (link) by default The expand arrow is a b…

Thanks for sharing this! That would be this approach: <script> $(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(function(){ jQuery('button.btn-sidebar-toggle).click(); }); }) </script> Which effects the sidebar to slide to the hidden state. So there’s an automatic animati…

Thank you, Don! It’s brilliant!

Can I default to a hidden sidebar?

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manuel (Manuel Kostka) January 27, 2023, 10:31am 5

Oh yes that helps indeed! That’s what I fumbled with but couldn’t get it to work..

Thanks so much for sharing @Don

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Can I default to a hidden sidebar?

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