issues aceesing the menu pane at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/

A Former User

hello, thanks for the documentation.

however, the left pane, which is the menu pane, does not have scroll bars, so I cannot see all items.

I am forced to use the right scroll bar to scroll down.
if there is not right side scroll bar, then I cannot scroll at all.

this makes it almost impossible to see the lower menu items, like vpn.

for example, goto page https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/general/index.html# and you will see you cannot see anything lower then virutalaztion, unless I use firefox page zoom to shrink the text
this makes no sense and I cannot be the only one with this problem

thanks much,
david

Grimson

@asdffdsa6131 said in issues aceesing the menu pane at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/:

however, the left pane, which is the menu pane, does not have scroll bars, so I cannot see all items.

Just scroll using the mouse wheel.

A Former User

hi grimson,
thanks for repsonding quickly.

I do not use a mouse.
I found a work around, but it is very annoying.
I have to right-mouse-click on the menu to select it and then I can use the keyboard keys to scroll. and I have to do each and every time over and over again.

please consider adding a simple scroll bar to the menu pane.

Rico

When you open the page and hit TAB once you can use the keyboard arrow keys.

-Rico

A Former User

rico, thanks, that helps.

please can someone add a simple scroll bar?

jdillard

Thanks for pointing that out, it shouldn't be assumed everyone has a scroll wheel. That is something better for the theme, https://github.com/rtfd/sphinx_rtd_theme, to implement, but I'll look into that some and see if there is anything that can be done to move it forward.

edit: found an issue that talks about the lack of a scrollbar: https://github.com/rtfd/sphinx_rtd_theme/issues/468

A Former User

thanks

A Former User

I noticed that this website seems to be using the same/similar software/theme and it has scrollbars.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/user_guide/quickstart.html

jdillard

Thanks! They seem to have a customized theme, I'll take a look: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/docs/docsite/_themes/sphinx_rtd_theme

A Former User

loving that scroll bar. got me some scroll bar. gonna scroll the night away.

jdillard

I should have fixed this, let me know if the fix didn't work. There is a good chance the old CSS is stuck in cache though so make sure to clear it.

https://github.com/pfsense/docs/commit/cab6031f35accec04a5ac1b01354090b56ae1d72

jdillard

@asdffdsa6131 "Ah, ha, ha, ha, scrollin' away, scroll'n away"

A Former User

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Watchin' the tide, scroll away
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Wastin' time
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