Side bar items with sub pages are not clickable about vanilla-framework

[bartaz]

Thanks for the report. This behaviour is currently by design.

One of the requirements for the expandable navigation was to be able to link to a documentation page and being expandable. That's why clicking on navigation item (like "Install") is separate from expanding it.

In this particular implementation it seems that "Install" doesn't have a paged linked to, which is not a recommended use of this component. For situations like this we have the "accordion" version of side navigation, where navigation items are expandable, but don't navigate to pages.

https://vanillaframework.io/docs/examples/patterns/side-navigation/accordion

I see this issue being reported by different people via various channels, so I'll bring it up to Vanilla Working Group to see how we can better address it.

[danielmutis]

WG: The behaviour of the side navigation was intended to be consistent regardless of whether there is a page or not on the nav item. The design decision from the documentation team was that it is essential that every item of the navigation is also a page. By having the chevron behave sometimes in one way and sometimes in another is not recommended.

@evildmp just so you are aware.

[nobuto-m]

What does that mean practically? Is there any action to be taken by the framework or is the issue in the consumer side of the framework effectively?

[bartaz]

To my understanding this is a content issue. For this component to be used as intended all items in the navigation should be linked to a page.

[danielmutis]

WG: This depends on the documentation team's decisions on how the side nav behaves. We will close this issue, unless there is an agreement on changing the approach with docs.