API Documentation have a flattened list of all the modules and classes

[ekzhu]

Just a flattened list of all the modules and classes that is ordered by full module name.

[gagb]

I tried to do this. One solution is to set the left padding of the ul element in the side navbar, but the challenges is that changes the global settings.

A better solution is to add a class to the API reference page, and selectively apply this CSS modifier. But I for love of god can't figure out how to do that.

The toctree lives outside the main page content, so adding :class: to toctree definition in reference/index.md does not work. Similarly wrapping the contents of the same index.md in a <div class="reference"></div> does not work.

I worry that the best solution maybe to create a custom toctree, somehow. But I am not at all sure how to do that. cc @jackgerrits

It's really worth doing it tho, this is what our page would look like. It's much much more readable. cc @afourney

[afourney]

Agree. Principle at hand is recognition over recall.