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Top navigation
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Also called: site menu, navigation, navbar.

A top navigation is a horizontal list of page links.

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Check out top navigation use cases to see if they fit the problem you're solving for.

Problems top navigation solves

The top navigation helps give visitors a sense of a site's structure, purpose, and priorities. It's optional to use for websites to:

Related components

Side navigation for products with up to three levels of navigation when the main content fits a narrow page width.

Header for placing the Government of Canada branded header landmark.

Breadcrumbs for a path from each level of the site's hierarchy to the current page.

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2025-03-10