Collapsed sections in mobile sidebar don’t expand when changing views: A user, Lilly, reported a bug where collapsed sections in the mobile sidebar dropdown menu don’t expand when switching back to desktop view. To reproduce, set navigation_menu to header dropdown, collapse menu sections in mobile view, and then switch to desktop view.
Lilly and Canapin provided video examples to demonstrate the issue. sam suggested building an override to prevent collapse when in hamburger mode.
Lilly decided to switch to the sidebar navigation menu on her forum, finding it more similar to the mobile view and preferring the ability to manually expand and collapse sections.
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.
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
