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Links in the right sidebar unexpectedly take users to new pages #3438

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Feedback from a recent user study: users expect right sidebar on a webpage to serve as a table of contents for the current page and expect links to take them to different sections within that page instead of different pages. This is how docs.flutter.dev works. For example: https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/layout.

This mismatch of mental model and link behavior is exacerbated by the fact that many method/property-level pages have far less content than class-level pages.

Recommendation: change links in the right sidebar to anchor links for within-page navigation.

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    P3A lower priority bug or feature requestarea-web-designSomething a web designer interested in helping could do.type-bugIncorrect behavior (everything from a crash to more subtle misbehavior)

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