create_sidebar: Create the sidebar for varnish

In zkamvar/sandpaper: Create and Curate Carpentries Lessons

Create the sidebar for varnish

Description

Varnish uses a sidebar for navigation across and within an episode. Each episode's sidebar is different because there needs to be a clear indicator which episode is the current one within the sidebar.

Usage

create_resources_dropdown(files, type = "learners")

create_sidebar(
  chapters,
  name = "",
  html = "<a href='https://carpentries.org'/>"
)

update_sidebar(
  sidebar = NULL,
  nodes = NULL,
  this_page = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  item = NULL
)

Arguments

files	a vector of markdown file names
type	one of "learners" (default) or "instructors". If it is learners, the setup page will be excluded since it is included in the index. For "instructors", the instructor notes are included and the learner profiles are included.
chapters	a character vector of paths to markdown chapters
name	the name of the current chapter
html	the html of the current chapter. defaults to a link that will produce a sidebar with no links to headings.
sidebar	an object of class "list-store" which has a "sidebar" element in the stored list. See set_globals().
nodes	the HTML nodes of an HTML page
this_page	the path to the current HTML page
title	the current title
item	the index of the sidebar item to update

Details

This function creates that sidebar.

Value

a character vector of HTML divs that can be appended to display the sidebar.

See Also

create_sidebar_item() for creation of individual sidebar items, set_globals() for where create_sidebar() is called and build_html() for where update_sidebar() is called.

zkamvar/sandpaper documentation built on April 21, 2024, 1:17 a.m.