Mobile view is slightly broken on Read the Docs (probably due to injected ads) #90

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1. joswhite commented on Feb 20, 2026

   

   joswhite

   on Feb 20, 2026

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   I'm getting a similar issue on Desktop. Tested in the latest Chrome and Firefox (this URL):

   

   The app bar is tall enough it blocks the "Contents" text in the sidebar.

   Seems to be related to the ad being displayed, since I'm not seeing the issue in my project, which uses the Piccolo theme without ads.
2. dantownsend commented on Feb 21, 2026

   

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   Thanks for sharing that screenshot. I wonder if there's some piece of markup which needs adding for Readthedocs to correctly insert their ads. Perhaps it's documented somewhere.

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3. JustinTArthur commented on May 20, 2026

   

   JustinTArthur

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   Filed upstream as readthedocs/readthedocs.org#13055.

   If you don't want to wait for a fix on their end, you can rename static/js/theme.js to something like static/js/piccolo_theme.js so it doesn't get mistaken for RTD's in-house theme.

   For everyone else, if using Sphinx, you can add something like this to your conf:

   html_css_files = ['css/piccolo_overrides.css']

   then in docs/_static/css/piccolo_overrides.css:

   div#top_nav nav {
     padding-bottom: 1rem !important;
   }
4. dantownsend commented on May 20, 2026

   

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   @JustinTArthur Thanks for figuring this out! I was really struggling with this one.

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5. JustinTArthur commented on Jun 9, 2026

   

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   This has been resolved upstream this week, as far as I can tell.