External Links in Sidebar are not styled

[JakobDev]

Problem

Give details on your issue.

Reproducible Project

Just add this to your conf.py

html_theme_options = {
    "style_external_links": True
}

And this comes into your index.rst:

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2

    Test <https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme>

Error Logs/Results

None

Expected Results

The External Link in the Sidebar should be styled as External Link, like all other External Links, but it does not.

Environment Info

• Python Version: 3.11.0
• Sphinx Version: 6.1.3
• RTD Theme Version: 1.2.1a1

[benjaoming]

CC: @ericholscher fun timing since we just added styling here: https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/pull/10039

Maybe we should just move it to the theme, I think it's generally useful.

[ericholscher]

Yea, I just wanted a quick fix :)