# Collapsed sections in mobile sidebar don’t expand when changing views
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapsed-sections-in-mobile-sidebar-don-t-expand-when-changing-views/264996
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [May 15, 2023, 6:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapsed-sections-in-mobile-sidebar-don-t-expand-when-changing-views/264996 "2023-05-15T06:09:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2023, 6:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapsed-sections-in-mobile-sidebar-don-t-expand-when-changing-views/264996/1 "2023-05-15T06:09:04Z")
Collapsed sections in sidebar drop down mode in mobile view don’t expand when you go back to desktop view. while this isn’t a big deal, i tend to switch views a lot and i don’t think that is expected behavior. one has to switch views back to mobile and expand the collapsed sections before switching to desktop. i guess because the drop down navigator sidebar doesn’t have collapsing/ expanding sections like the sliding one. desktop view button probably needs a navigation menu section expander code added to it.
repro:
1. set `navigation_menu` to header dropdown
2. go to mobile view and collapse menu sections
3. switch to desktop view and try navigator menu
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapsed-sections-in-mobile-sidebar-don-t-expand-when-changing-views/264996/2 "2023-05-15T16:30:56Z")
I could repro the issue 👍
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 6:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapsed-sections-in-mobile-sidebar-don-t-expand-when-changing-views/264996/3 "2023-05-16T06:05:14Z")
This is a great catch.
We need to build an override here @awesomerobot / @tgxworld so we never have anything collapsed when stuff is in hamburger mode.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapsed-sections-in-mobile-sidebar-don-t-expand-when-changing-views/264996/4 "2023-05-17T00:29:54Z")
i’m going to move it from drop down to sidebar on my forum. i like that it is more similar to the mobile view that way. i think my users will grow to like it, especially with the manually expanding and collapsing sections and the menu itself. i think the desktop users (of which i have many) will like that it can stay expanded.
after using the navigation menu in drop down hamburger mode for awhile i personally much prefer the sideburger.
i know some of my older users will complain at first but i can always blame Discourse lol 😅
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 2:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapsed-sections-in-mobile-sidebar-don-t-expand-when-changing-views/264996/5 "2023-05-17T02:10:20Z")
Thank you for the bug report here @Lilly
I’ve pushed a fix for this in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/21604](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/21604)
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapsed-sections-in-mobile-sidebar-don-t-expand-when-changing-views/264996/6 "2023-06-01T00:00:52Z")
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