Using Sphinx, how can I remove the title appearing in the side-bar's table of context?

I was able to solve this by using the .. raw:: html method as described above, with a slight tweak (that avoided breaking the auto-generated TOC). as described earlier, if your file only contains .. raw:: html headings, it will break the Sphinx auto-generated TOC. however, if you use .. raw:: html and add --------------------- below it, it won't show on the left-hand nav, and won't break the TOC. e.g.

so i finally accidentally figured out how to get headings to not be displayed in the left-hand TOC. if your file only contains .. raw:: html h2 headings, it will break the sphinx auto-generated TOC (as mentioned in the stackoverflow article). however, if you use .. raw:: html and --------------------- below it, it won't show on the left-hand nav, and won't break the TOC :star2: e.g.

.. raw:: html

   <h2>What Can I Do With KSQL?</h2>

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The easy way is to use an object type that's ignored by the TOC directive:

.. rubric:: My Title

This creates text that looks somewhat like a heading, but is excluded from the TOC. You can update your CSS file with whatever style you want for the .rubric class, even mimicking h1 style if you like.

See "Non-TOC headings within a Restructuredtext page" for how to define rubric styled classes.

If you are trying to remove it from all of your documents, try customizing the default template. Otherwise you will need to modify the HTML builder by creating a subclass.