17 December: Visual upgrades, table improvements and more
We’ve made some visual upgrades to published docs sites, added content breadcrumbs, made tables more consistent, and added new ways to style text in comments
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We’ve made some visual upgrades to published docs sites, added content breadcrumbs, made tables more consistent, and added new ways to style text in comments
Last updated
This week, we’ve released a few visual improvements for docs sites.
First, the customization option now has more choices. Set it to Primary and the background of your docs site will subtly tint to match your primary theme color. Alternatively, choose Custom to select a different color to use as the background, and across your site — such as in tables (more about tables below).
Your site header also now has a more modern look. It now features translucency, a new search bar, an a more flexible layout across screen sizes — especially on small and tiny screens.
Finally, we’ve updated the link styles of the footer to match those of pages and groups, to give a more consistent look and feel.
You may have noticed that we now show breadcrumbs at the top of your pages in GitBook. By default it will show the page group title, but for nested pages it will also show the parent pages, including their page icon or emoji. You can click any of the breadcrumbs to jump to that page or the top of the group.
This week we’ve released a bunch of improvements to tables to make them more consistent.
First, tables that are smaller than the page will now appear at the same width when published — rather than increasing it to the width of the block as it did before.
Likewise, if you set custom column widths by dragging the separator, this will now be respected in the published site.
We also know that text-wrapping in cells was too aggressive, so we’ve fixed that to make better use of available space.
Note: As this changes the way tables are sized, we recommend checking your published docs to see if your tables look the way you expect them to look
We’ve spent the last few weeks improving our own docs with new information, improved images, and more details to help you find the information you need faster.
You might also have noticed a couple of new site sections at the top of this page — Guides and Help Center. Guides includes a range of tutorials and advice to help you make your docs the best they can be in GitBook, and Help Center is there to answer your questions and solve issues as you run into them.
Take a look around — we hope you like the changes we’ve made. We’ll be adding to these sections regularly going forward, so stay tuned for more!
We’re constantly working on improving the way you and your team work in GitBook, and value your input on features, bugs, and more. Make sure you head to our official GitBook community to join the discussion.
On top of that, we’ve updated table styles for published content. The table header will now adopt your — if you’ve enabled it in your site’s Customization screen — and it’ll also respect your selected corner style.
You can now use to apply styling to text in comments. As well as bold, italic and code styling, you can also create bulleted and numbered lists in comments. Plus, we made pasted URLs clickable in comments so you can open them more easily.
