BTP/Navigation/Horizontal Navigation

The navigation is one of the signature design elements of BTP Tools.

### Recommended - Use the navigation to switch between different pages of your tool. - Use expanded vertical navigation for unknown users. - Use persistence and display the last state the vertical navigation was in for know users. - Use the snapped variant when the content area displays multi-column content relationships. - Use the popup variant to display between 3 and 7 navigation items without hierarchy. - Use the horizontal navigation variant to display more than two levels of hierarchy. - Use nouns for the titles of navigation items. ### Not Recommended - Avoid using the navigation for switching between tools. Use the mega menu instead. - Avoid using the navigation to switch contexts or views. Use tabs or segmented buttons instead. - Avoid using verbs for the titles of navigation items. Use nouns instead. - Avoid using the Navigation Items for both navigation and groups. Use only one of the options. - Avoid having more than three levels of hierarchy in the horizontal variant. - Avoid using icons in secondary navigation and navigation groups. - Avoid using spacers to separate navigation content. Use separators instead. - Avoid using dividers to separate groups. Use separators instead. - Avoid using the bottom navigation area for service information. Use settings and user menu instead.

Horizontal Navigation is an optional alternative to the Vertical Navigation variant.