Book: 404 page which automatically includes book navbar etc.

[meierluk]

Description

It would be nice if a custom 404.qmd would automatically inherit all the properties of the corresponding book project, i.e., render with the navbar etc. (as seems to have been the case with bookdown).

[mcanouil]

It's already the case at least for website.

HTML	SOURCE

I would have believe the same applies for Book projects.
Do you have an example in which it does not work?

[meierluk]

If I use the (only-slightly edited) book template, I get this 404.html, compare with the standard book layout.

The source is available on github.com/meierluk/quarto-test/.

[mcanouil]

Thanks for the repository.

Side note: be aware that using "here" as the text make your content not accessible as "here" is not meaningful, i.e., we have no clue of what "here" is about or link to. See W3.org tips for writing accessible content such as making link text meaningful.

[meierluk]

Good point! I have updated it accordingly.

[meierluk]

According to the documentation "HTML books are actually just a special type of Quarto Website". Should it then considered to be an issue?

[mcanouil]

Possibly, but we haven't looked at your example just yet.
If there is an issue, we'll open a GitHub Issue to track the bug.

[cderv]

Yes this is an issue I can reproduce. I'll move as a bug, just need to check more. Because I think this is related to our other sidebar

• Sidebar not displayed if no Quarto document #9242
• Sidebar not loading properly in new version, works in old version #9728
  which were supposed to be solved by
• Correctly detect a global sidebar and not a specific page sidebar #9741

but it was reverted because it broke some stuff.

So complicated stories.

[cderv]

So I can confirm that this is same issue as the one I linked and that commit which breaks this is ff820aa with the change regarding sidebar

• sidebar with single sidebar entry gets shown across entire website #5689

I'll open and link to others

[cderv]

Tracking in

• Book 404 page does not include book navbar preventing navigation #10014