A navigation organizes an application’s structure and content, making it easy to find information and accomplish tasks. Navigation communicates relationships, context, and actions a user can take within an application.
Elements
- Masthead
- Horizontal navigation
- Menu icon button: Provides a way for users to toggle vertical navigation
- Vertical navigation
- Tertiary navigation
Usage
Vertical navigation
Vertical navigation is hierarchical global navigation that displays navigation options from top to bottom on the left side of a screen. PatternFly vertical navigation can be collapsed to provide additional screen real estate by using a menu icon button at the top left.
When to use
- You have five or more primary navigation items
- You have secondary navigation items (even if you have less than five primary navigation items)
- You expect your application to be used on mobile devices
Variations
Simple vertical navigation
Use a simple, single-level vertical navigation when you only have one level of navigation to display.
Grouped navigation
When you have a small amount of secondary navigation items, you can group your items and display them persistently beneath the primary navigation items.
Expandable vertical navigation
When you have a large number of secondary navigation items, you can use an expandable navigation to collapse and expand options as needed.
Horizontal navigation
Horizontal navigation is global navigation that displays navigation items from left to right in the application's masthead.
When to use
- You have less than five primary navigation items
- You have only one level of navigation and no secondary navigation items
Tertiary navigation
While global navigation controls what users are seeing at the application-level, local navigation provides more granular navigation specific to a particular page or window in the application. For example, a user might use global navigation to get to a settings page, and then use local navigation to access privacy and general user settings.
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