From: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] sphinx-static/theme_overrides.css: switch to a fixed width documentation
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:47:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260202-fixed-width-html-v1-1-e987deb9926d@bootlin.com> (raw)
Change the css rules of our theme to have a fixed-width documentation
instead of it taking the full width of the page. I believe this makes it
much more readable compared to having long lines with few line returns,
especially on high-resolution displays. Set the width to 1000px instead
of the previous 800px, which felt slightly too thin.
I think the removed comment here does not make that much sense for us.
It was added by commit 0c1e108bc6c4 ("sphinx: add CSS theme override"),
and I believe is a simply copy and paste of what was is set in the Linux
kernel, added by commit 9abaf979abb2 ("doc-rst: customize RTD theme,
table & full width") [1].
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9abaf979abb2
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
---
Note: this would require backports to stable branches to harmonize each
version of the documentation (perhaps outdated releases too) - either
manually or in an automated manner from the Autobuilder. We would also
have to update the BitBake manual's CSS file.
Note 2: I was hesitant as whether to center the text column or not. If
you want to try this is possible to do it by adding:
.wy-nav-content {
...
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
Note 3: I also tested this on my smartphone and it displays correctly.
---
documentation/sphinx-static/theme_overrides.css | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/documentation/sphinx-static/theme_overrides.css b/documentation/sphinx-static/theme_overrides.css
index d235cb826f..3cb16dbccc 100644
--- a/documentation/sphinx-static/theme_overrides.css
+++ b/documentation/sphinx-static/theme_overrides.css
@@ -99,14 +99,19 @@ em {
[alt='Permalink'] { color: #eee; }
[alt='Permalink']:hover { color: black; }
+.literal-block {
+ background: #f8f8f8;
+}
+
@media screen {
- /* content column
- *
- * RTD theme's default is 800px as max width for the content, but we have
- * tables with tons of columns, which need the full width of the view-port.
- */
+ .wy-nav-content {
+ max-width: 1000px;
+ background: #fcfcfc;
+ }
- .wy-nav-content{max-width: none; }
+ .wy-nav-content-wrap {
+ background: #efefef;
+ }
/* inline literal: drop the borderbox, padding and red color */
code, .rst-content tt, .rst-content code {
---
base-commit: b8a56b8b2e8c0417b2f7204f80c79b05d95e9ce4
change-id: 20260202-fixed-width-html-6e5d08767da8
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