Navigation bar (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia’s article on navigation bars — explicitly flagged by Wikipedia itself as a stub (“You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information”). Covers the term across four contexts.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Key points
- File browsers: current path, breadcrumbs, and favorites.
- Web browsers: the back/forward buttons and location bar; notes Google Chrome’s merging of the toolbar and address bar into one control.
- Web design: primary/secondary navigation bars, typically in the header or as a sidebar, horizontal vs. vertical, responsive behavior.
- HTML5: the
<nav>element, with a short markup example.
See Site Header and Navigation Menus for the design guidance on header/sidebar placement, primary/secondary navigation, and horizontal-bar-vs-vertical-sidebar conventions.