# Making custom changes to the sidebar programmatically

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api, sidebar\
**Created:** [July 27, 2023, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-custom-changes-to-the-sidebar-programmatically/273027 "2023-07-27T09:14:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-custom-changes-to-the-sidebar-programmatically/273027/5 "2023-07-28T17:47:00Z")

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> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> I think the indenting can probably be handled with styling in CSS?

Having looked into it a bit further, I am confident that this will work, yes! My challenge now is that the list of links is dynamic and can potentially change with each page change. My naive approach of calling `api.addSidebarSection` from within `api.onPageChange` does not work because (a) the sidebar is only refreshed when it is re-rendered by hiding and showing it again and (b) the sections are repeated because `api.addSidebarSection` does not care if the name key is reused.

Any chance I can achieve a sidebar section that is updated on each page transition with the new API?

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