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Navigation bar. A navigation bar (or navigation system) is a section of a graphical user interface intended to aid visitors in accessing information. Navigation bars are implemented in operating systems, file browsers, [ 1 ] web browsers, apps, web sites and other similar user interfaces.
A hamburger, the origin of the nickname. The hamburger button (the triple bar ≡ or trigram symbol ☰), so named for its unintentional resemblance to a hamburger, is a button typically placed in a top corner of a graphical user interface. [ 1 ] Its function is to toggle a menu (sometimes referred to as a hamburger menu) or navigation bar ...
Menu bar of Mozilla Firefox, showing a submenu. A menu bar is a graphical control element which contains drop-down menus.. The menu bar's purpose is to supply a common housing for window- or application-specific menus which provide access to such functions as opening files, interacting with an application, or displaying help documentation or manuals.
Pie menu. In user interface design, a pie menu or radial menu is a circular context menu where selection depends on direction. It is a graphical control element. A pie menu is made of several "pie slices" around an inactive center and works best with stylus input, and well with a mouse. Pie slices are drawn with a hole in the middle for an easy ...
Ribbon (computing) In computer interface design, a ribbon is a graphical control element in the form of a set of toolbars placed on several tabs. The typical structure of a ribbon includes large, tabbed toolbars, filled with graphical buttons and other graphical control elements, grouped by functionality.
Taskbar. The taskbar is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, displaying and facilitating switching between running programs. The taskbar and the associated Start Menu were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at Microsoft who had previously collaborated on great ape ...
OpenOffice.org allows its toolbars to be detached and moved between windows and other toolbars. The toolbar, also called a bar or standard toolbar (originally known as ribbon), [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a graphical control element on which on-screen icons can be used. A toolbar often allows for quick access to functions that are commonly used in the program.
A breadcrumb or breadcrumb trail is a graphical control element used as a navigational aid in user interfaces and on web pages. It allows users to keep track and maintain awareness of their locations within programs, documents, or websites. The term alludes to the trail of bread crumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the German fairy tale.