# Sub-sections on the sidebar without sub-categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-sections-on-the-sidebar-without-sub-categories/370357
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** doc-categories
**Created:** [June 16, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-sections-on-the-sidebar-without-sub-categories/370357 "2025-06-16T13:06:17Z")
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### Author: ![mrmowji](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mrmowji/32/505517_2.png) [@mrmowji](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrmowji)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-sections-on-the-sidebar-without-sub-categories/370357/1 "2025-06-16T13:06:17Z")

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I already searched but I couldn’t find how I can have nested sections on the sidebar. Something like this (from [Discourse Doc Categories - #112 by tknospdr](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376/112)):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/b/1/5b13679e58b9b2412d0c89136284d5b56ff56db7.png)

Although there, clicking on each section/sub-section (to expand) loads the list/sub-list.

I know we can use sub-categories, but that’s overkill in my case. I already tried using subheadings or sub-lists in the index file. No luck.

My confusion comes from this line from [https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376:](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376:)

> You can divide your index topic into sections and use multiple lists with headings (of any level) above each one.

I thought at least subheadings should work, but it seems that sentence only means no matter what the heading is, you’ll get a section.

So, is there any way I can achieve this using the index file itself?

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