feat: add active section highlighting and auto-scroll to sidebar - #8331
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Summary
closes #8323
The sidebar previously gave no visual indication of which section was currently in view, and did not auto-scroll or auto-expand to keep the active item visible. This PR adds active-section tracking, highlighting and auto-scroll to the sidebar so users can stay oriented while reading long docs pages.
What kind of change does this PR introduce?
Feature (
feat) — adds active section highlighting and auto-scroll behavior to the sidebar navigation.Recording.2026-08-16.120618.mp4
Did you add tests for your changes?
Yes — added unit tests in
src/components/SidebarItem/SidebarItem.test.jsxcovering active anchor behavior.Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
No.
SidebarItemgains a new optionalactiveAnchorprop; existing usages without it are unaffected.If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?
No external/user-facing documentation changes are needed — this is an internal UI behavior improvement to the existing sidebar component. No new public API or config was introduced.
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