The filter manual is the docs tree's first FOLDER-index page: it serves
at /docs/user/filters while its nav entry carries /index
(/docs/user/filters/index). The sidebar's two checks — group expansion
(containsURL) and active-link styling (docsNavClass) — compared URLs
EXACTLY, so the folder URL matched neither: no submenu expansion, no
highlight (2026-11-01 user report: "the left sidebar should open to
the submenu and highlight the page").
Fix is structural, not per-page: both checks normalize folder-index
URLs (a trailing /index is the same page as its directory), so EVERY
folder-index page — current and future — expands and highlights like
a file page. No per-page registration exists anywhere in the docs
system to redo: the sidebar derives from the docs tree, and this was
the one URL shape its equality rule missed.
Pins: navigation (section + group expand for the folder URL, group
present) and docsNavClass (folder URL highlights the Overview item,
normalization symmetric, file pages keep their highlight, no
cross-highlighting).
Docs pages no longer embed the app Header (whose hx-post login form silently
degraded to a native GET, leaking credentials into the URL — this page never
loaded htmx). New docs-owned topbar: search, theme picker, Open App; anonymous
visitors get a plain /login link. Optional-auth middleware (hand-rolled —
echojwt's ErrorHandler return ends the chain, producing empty 200s) populates
the user for signed-in visitors.
Navigation rebuilt from the docs directory tree: 6 sections, subcategory
groups, server-rendered expansion and active states. Search results are a
templ partial (/docs/search/partial); code highlighting is server-side chroma
(previously dead hljs CSS); prose is theme-aware via typography DEFAULT vars
(prose-invert painted unreadable text under light themes). /docs renders the
index directly; standalone 404 without the tailwind CDN.
Tests: navigation routing/expansion (internal/docs), render pins asserting no
login form/password field/app sidebar ever return on docs pages.
lint-rendering: exempt *.test.ts fixtures (jsdom DOM building); docs.ts
baseline 5 -> 1.
John O'Keefe