How to hide the sidebar using Sphinx RTD theme when making htmlhelp

Question

Is it possible to hide the sidebar when using Sphinx with the ReadTheDocs theme?

Extending the question a bit more, can I have it include the s

Answer 1

For building matlab documentation (which I believe is similar to HTMLHelp), I found that it is possible to hide the side-bar using a additional CSS:

.wy-nav-side {
  display: none;
}

.wy-nav-content-wrap {
  margin-left: 0;
}

Then in the conf.py file I added the CSS file:

html_static_path = ['_static']

html_css_files = [
    'css/matlabdoc.css',
]

This doesn't remove the side-bar, but at least it hides it. Might help.

Looking through the RTD theme, it might also be possible to remove the side-bar by changing the search.html and localtoc.html default files in conf.py by setting them with html_sidebars = {}.