mkdocs-material: Stay on page when switching versions broken for default version

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I’ve read the contribution guidelines and wholeheartedly agree

I’ve found a bug and checked that …

… the problem doesn’t occur with the mkdocs or readthedocs themes
… the problem persists when all overrides are removed, i.e. custom_dir, extra_javascript and extra_css
… the documentation does not mention anything about my problem
… there are no open or closed issues that are related to my problem

Description

For https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-versioning/, if I have versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2, with latest pointing to 1.2:

/latest/page/ -> dropdown 1.0: ok /1.0/page/
/latest/page/ -> dropdown 1.1: ok /1.1/page/
/latest/page/ -> dropdown 1.2: redirect /1.2/

Expected behaviour

Switching to the permanent link of the current default page should work

Actual behaviour

Redirects to root

Steps to reproduce

Example page https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/config/metadata/

Package versions

Python: 3.10.5
MkDocs: 1.3.0
Material: 8.3.4

Configuration

https://github.com/pypa/hatch/blob/master/mkdocs.yml

System information

Operating system: Windows 10
Browser: Chrome

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 23 (12 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/issues/4291

ofek on Aug 28, 2022

Actually, I’ve just tested and it seems that version switching has never worked with anchors 😅 Could you please create a new issue? It’s related, but not the same error as this one.

squidfunk on Aug 28, 2022

After further investigation, this is entirely a Mike issue, will look into it a bit more and report there. Still not sure why it only recently started happening, but sorry for wasting your time!

mastercoms on Jun 17, 2022

Thank you!!!

ofek on Jun 14, 2022

Released as part of 8.3.5.

squidfunk on Jun 14, 2022

Thanks for the fix!!!

Not sure how long but https://github.com/jimporter/mike says:

By default, aliases create a simple HTML redirect to the real version of the docs; to create a copy of the docs for each alias, you can pass --no-redirect.

I do that because I like retaining latest in the URL.

ofek on Jun 12, 2022