Please restore h-rules on the docs home page, which were removed in the 4.2 docs.

[George Chang]

This:

looks so much better than this:

in my opinion. The h-rules are absent from 4.2 onwards also. Is there any particular reason why they were removed?

[Natalia Bidart]

Hello George Chang, and thank you for your interest in improving Django.

It took me a bit of investigation to understand the underlying cause. In the future, providing any initial analysis or context you have already uncovered would be very helpful, as it can speed up the process for everyone.

In this case the change is not in Django itself. Starting with Docutils 0.17, the HTML5 writer began emitting semantic tags like <section> instead of the older <div class="section"> structure. Sphinx adopted that change and the Django documentation picked it up when the docs toolchain was updated. Because of that, some of the CSS in the djangoproject.com theme that targeted the old structure no longer applies (see ​https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/blame/ecfa16f2fd51c412b2dc8de34036bdad3b2c9a9b/djangoproject/scss/_style.scss#L322 for reference).

The styles for the Django docs live in the djangoproject.com repository, not in Django core (and this tracker is for Django core issues only). If you would like to propose adjustments to restore the horizontal separators, please open an issue or pull request on: ​https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues

​https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com

Thanks again for the report and for helping improve the documentation experience.