Documentation Link

https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/animation/index.html

Problem

Steps:

1. Go to Animations from the navigation section on the left hand side.
2. Click on the animation examples either from the side navigation section or from the thumbnails in the main page.

Expected Outcome: Side navigation section continues to show the links of examples gallery

Actual Outcome: Side navigation section shows the matplotlib API reference links instead.

Result: UX is negatively affected, navigation is inconsistent compared to everywhere else in the documentation.

Note: Not reproducible for these examples, breaks for all other animation examples:

• pyplot animation
• Multiple axes animation
• pasuing and resuming an animation
• animated scatter saved as gif

Possible reasons: Animation renderer could have something to do with it, but then again, the above 4 examples don't reflect that. Needs root cause analysis.

Reproducible in Mozilla Firefox, Edge as well as Chrome. Reproducible across devdocs, stable and the older versions.

Actionability: The scope is limited to the Animation examples in the Examples Gallery as far as I have found out. For now, this issue isn't critical or high priority.

Suggested improvement

The section navigation div should contain the toctree of the Examples gallery links, not the API reference links.
Fix should have this result:
Unexpected div:

should be more like the expected div: