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 bit too subtle. What methods do I have available to do this? Thanks [quote post]

Thanks for sharing this! That would be this approach: $(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(function(){ jQuery('button.btn-sidebar-toggle).click(); }); }) Which effects the sidebar to slide to the hidden state. So there’s an automatic animation on document ready which is not that ideal. I actually also thought that the sidebar is controlled by the aria attribute, so I had tried this: $(document).ready(function(){ $("button.btn-sidebar-toggle").attr("aria-expanded","false"); }) But the attribute is not controlling the state, it’s only indicating it. So that snippet will change the attribute, but not the state :upside_down_face:

Oh yes that helps indeed! :smile: That’s what I fumbled with but couldn’t get it to work.. Thanks so much for sharing @Don :star2:

Can I default to a hidden sidebar?

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vikiedavie (vikiedavie) January 27, 2023, 1:43pm 6

Thank you, Don! It’s brilliant!

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Can I default to a hidden sidebar?

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