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What does the component do?

  • Provides direct access to contents and functions of applications or parts of applications.

When should the component be used?

  • For structuring and direct navigation to contents and functions.

Rules

Behaviour

  • On large screens (desktop and larger), the content area is reduced in width when the sidebar is expanded. For smaller screens (tablet, mobile), the content is covered by the expanded sidebar.

Layout

  • The height of the navigation bar corresponds to the height of the complete content area.
 Variants

Variants

Plain

This variant has following states:

  • Default

Image of a sidebar, plain


  • The menu items can be divided into categories / areas.
  • For the categories you can choose between accordion and fieldset when using the sidebar.

Icon bar

This variant has following states:

  • Collapsed
  • Collapsed Hover
  • Expanded
  • Expanded Hover

Image of a sidebar, icon bar


  • The default state (collapsed, expanded) can be defined per application.
  • If required, the navigation points can be grouped visually using separators.
  • By default, the first (top) navigation point should be active.

This variant has following states:

  • Collapsed
  • Expanded

Image of a sidebar, submenu


  • The default state (collapsed, expanded) can be defined per application.
  • The menu items can be divided into categories / areas.
  • For the categories you can choose between accordion and fieldset when using the sidebar.

Specifications

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