Menu button

This shows the menu button (circled in red in the top image) on the Firefox web browser. When clicked, as shown in the lower image, a pop-out menu container appears.

A menu button is a graphical control element which contains drop down menus. It is a single button, which typically consists of three horizontal bars, and is distinguished from a menu bar in that a menu button does not actually show the menu until someone clicks upon the button, while a menu bar shows the highest-level menu options.

This shows a website menu button on the left (circled in red in the top image) on CNN.COM. When clicked, as shown in the second image, a location choice replaces the page being viewed. The third image shows a menu button circled in red on TVTropes.COM. When it is clicked, a menu pops out on the left and the original page is dimmed.

Menu buttons may appear on application programs, such as the menu button on the far right side of the Firefox web browser, and is commonly used for menu or navigational controls on websites.

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Command input	Adjustment handle Button Context menu Drop-down list Hamburger button Menu Pie menu

Data input-output	Checkbox Color picker Combo box Cycle button Date Picker Grid view List box List builder Radio button Scrollbar Search box Slider Spinner Text box

Informational	Balloon help Head-up display in computing Head-up display in video games Icon Infobar Label Loading screen Progress indicator Progress bar Splash screen Throbber Sidebar Status bar Toast Tooltip

Containers	Accordion Disclosure widget Frame/Fieldset Menu bar Menu button Panel Popover Ribbon Tab Toolbar Window

Navigational	Address bar Breadcrumb Hyperlink Navigation bar Pager Tree view

Special windows	About box Alert dialog box Dialog box File dialog Inspector window Modal window Palette window

Related concepts	File viewer List of graphical user interface elements Layout manager Look and feel Mouseover Widget toolkit WIMP

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