# Page features

**Customize → Page Features** controls the sidebar's colours and four things a reader sees on every article page: the table of contents, the feedback widget, prev/next navigation, and the "Last updated" date. The preview pane beside the settings shows a sample article, so most of these toggles can be judged there.

The **Auto-Save Option** section, further down the Customize page, is covered here too – it is the only Customize setting that changes the editor rather than the published site.

## Colour the sidebar

Four pickers, applied to the docs sidebar on every theme:

*   **Sidebar background color**
*   **Sidebar text color**
*   **Sidebar highlight text color**
*   **Sidebar highlight background color**

The two "highlight" colours style the currently-open page's row. Set them to something with real contrast against the background – that row is how a reader knows where they are in a long sidebar.

![The Page Features section showing the four sidebar colour pickers above the Table of Content, Page Feedback, Workflow and Last updated date toggles](https://res.cloudinary.com/dstack/image/upload/v1785197672/page-features_ows3hw.png)

These four toggles apply to every page on the site; there is no per-page override.

## Table of Content

Toggle **Table of Content** (_"Display Table of Content"_) to show a per-page contents list.

Dewstack builds it from the **Heading blocks in the page – H1 through H4**. It does not read bold text or large text as a heading, so a page whose sections are marked up with bold paragraphs gets no table of contents at all. Use the paragraph-format dropdown in the editor for section titles. A page with no headings shows nothing, even with the toggle on.

On desktop it renders as a rail to the right of the article, highlighting the section you are currently reading as you scroll. On mobile it collapses into a control showing the current heading, which expands to the full list. The rail's heading text depends on your theme – **Table of Contents** on Theme 3, **On this page** on Themes 1 and 2. See [Themes and dark mode](/docs/customize/themes).

## Page Feedback

Toggle **Page Feedback** (_"Display Page Feedback"_) to ask readers whether a page helped, under the heading **WAS THIS PAGE HELPFUL?**

What they click depends on the theme. **Theme 2** shows a **Yes** / **No** pair of thumb buttons in the right-hand rail, next to the table of contents. The other themes show a row of three faces – sad, neutral, happy – below the article body, which records a middle rating as well as the two extremes.

A reader's answer is remembered in their browser per page, so the widget does not keep asking on a page they have already rated. The ratings you collect roll up into the **Feedback Received** figure and the Feedback Distribution card in [Analytics](/docs/analytics-page/analytics).

## Workflow

Toggle **Workflow** (_"Display Page Workflow"_) to add **Prev** and **Next** links at the foot of each article. Each link is captioned with the collection it leads into – `Next · API Reference`.

The order follows your sidebar exactly, walking through collections and their pages top to bottom. If you use [spaces](/docs/customize/spaces-and-tabs), pagination is **scoped to the active space**: the last page of a tab has no Next, and a reader is never carried across a tab boundary without choosing to.

## Last updated date

Toggle **Last updated date** – _"Show the 'Last updated' date under each page title"_.

**This one is on by default.** If you have never touched it, your docs are showing a date. That is usually what you want on documentation; turn it off if you maintain evergreen pages where a months-old timestamp would make accurate content look stale.

## Auto-Save Option

The **Auto-Save Option** section has a single toggle, **Enable/Disable auto-save for content**. With autosave on, the editor saves your work about five seconds after you stop typing. **It is off until you switch it on** – a workspace that has never touched this toggle does not autosave, and you must save manually after every edit.

Autosave is what makes work survive a closed tab, a browser crash or a dropped connection. On a paid plan or trial it also writes a restorable revision, which you can roll back to from [Page History](/docs/managing-pages/page-history).

Autosave never changes a page's status – which cuts both ways

On a draft, autosaving keeps it a draft. But on a page that is **already published**, autosave writes straight to the live page: readers see your edits without you clicking Publish. Set a page back to Draft first if you want to rework something that is live. See [Save and publish a page](/docs/managing-pages/save-and-publish-a-page).

## Related

[Page history Restore a previous version of a page.](/docs/managing-pages/page-history) [Text editor overview The toolbar, grouped by what you are trying to do.](/docs/content-editing/text-editor-overview)
