Also called: sidebar menu, lefthand nav, vertical navigation.A side navigation is a vertical list of page links on the left side of the screen.
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Problems side navigation solves
It’s optional to use side navigation in products for:
Making second and third level navigation visible in information architectures that have 1-3 levels of navigation.
Presenting a consistent navigation across pages with a large number of top level items, like technical documentation with broad category sets.
Enabling navigation between various categories or sections so a person can scan and compare like objects in a set.
Providing ready access to global navigation between deep navigation structures.
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