Overriding the default field name limit in sphinx/docutils

Question

I am using sphinx for generating html documentation for a project. I make extensive use of field lists.

When generating html, each label/value pair is rendered as a sing

Answer 1

One way to do this is to override the setting in custom sphinx builder class extending original html builder, and set self.settings.field_name_limit = 0 in prepare_writing(self, docnames) function. That said, this is a little overkill, unless you already have a custom builder class ...