# Swift-DocC sidebar

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-docc-sidebar/55250>\
**Category:** Swift-DocC\
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-docc-sidebar/55250 "2022-02-10T21:02:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Karl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@Karl](https://forums.swift.org/u/Karl)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-docc-sidebar/55250/12 "2022-02-17T00:27:14Z")

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Yeah, I'm not sure I'm really feeling it as proposed.

Here's a super-quick example of how it would look if we dropped the margins and the removed the hero background. Personally, I think it looks a lot better with fewer visual flourishes. Just MHO.

The body content still feels a bit "off" to me; it feels very narrow. The topics shortcuts give it a weird alignment, and I feel that perhaps the big sidebar is just serving to emphasise how much horizontal space is being wasted.

 ![As proposed](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/swift/original/3X/f/3/f3338e3f9225d1cd5a81692bf99386ae6171b263.jpeg)  
 ![Fewer visual flourishes](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/swift/original/3X/c/a/ca22c0d7db3eccf49f568e3f7da47ddb5741b326.jpeg)

Also, on an iPad in portrait mode, the sidebar is _very annoying_. There really needs to be a button to hide it. The narrower width also makes code snippets basically illegible

 ![iPad 1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/swift/original/3X/7/6/765d7964d53d06cb14f88f940657394eb8cced54.jpeg) ![iPad 2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/swift/original/3X/d/5/d54836bee99663060815899fe4a264f6c4f535de.jpeg)

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