Static section headings in the sidebar

[zackbatist]

Description

I'm working on a quarto website and I want to have a static section heading in the sidebar. It is possible to emulate this only if I specify an index.qmd file, but I do not want a landing page for it either. I just want it to have a few pages nested below a header, with the option for the header to be non-foldable / non-collapsible. I did a comprehensive search but I don't see that this is currently possible.

[mcanouil]

Why not use "section" as described in the documentation for sidebar? https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#side-navigation

[zackbatist]

This provides no option to make the section non-collapsible.

[zackbatist]

It might also be nice if we could ignore the name of the directory in the url slug.

With the following structure, the slug is https://example.org/project-documentation/research-protocol.html.

But it would be great if it could be https://example.org/research-protocol.html instead, since the name of the section is just aesthetic in this use case.

- section: "Project Documentation"
  contents:
    - project-documentation/research-protocol.qmd

[mcanouil]

Quarto uses your directory structure to define the URLs.
If you don't want that, then change the structure of your project or use aliases.
https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#redirects

[zackbatist]

Thank you, this is very helpful.