Solve the bottom-of-the-page bug

[lord]

The thing where you can't get to the bottom item of the ToC if there's not enough content:

Ideas:

• Add a page-tall footer with a gigantic picture of a cat
• Adjust the distance from the top that the 'current' item has as the page scrolls
• Something else crazy and magical?

[ryw]

This wouldn't be a problem in real-world use, I think — do we expect people will publish API docs that are less than a screen of text, yet use slate to do that?

[lord]

@ryw well, only the very last section of the document would have to be less than the entire page, which is something I see somewhat often.

[WorkForPizza]

Would love to see a fix to this problem. Totally agree that it is encountered in real-world use.

[ryw]

Got it - working on our slate docs site for http://astronomer.io over the next week or two, I'm happy to have a look at this, give back to a cool project ;)

[lord]

@ryw 😄 Thanks for offering to help! Just as a warning, right now in the v2 branch that I'm working in, the table of contents is pretty broken (since I'm removing our Tocify dependency). But feel free to make PRs to that branch if you find anything that works well!

[oubiwann]

Just thought I'd pipe up with some input/another case (I may be wrong, but I believe I am experiencing this issue on my slate docs pages).

Steps to reproduce:

• Visit http://lfex.github.io/lhc/current/
• Click on link towards the bottom of the nav (do not click the last one, though). For instance, click "Previous Versions"
• Observe that "Backends -> Backend Information" is actually highlighted, not "Previous Versions"

Steps to get "Previous Versions" to highlight when selected:

• Refresh page
• Click the last item in the nav menu
• Click "Previous Versions" -- it should now be highlighted

Sometimes this won't work, and you'll have to click one of the last items in the nav menu a few times before the bottom links in the nav start highlighting correctly.

[axilleas]

An addition of a footer would be nice. See how readme.io does this https://sample-threes.readme.io/

[lord]

Fixed in the dev branch with the new table of contents! 😸