Sidebar vs. Drawer

A sidebar is furniture: a persistent navigation column that shares the layout with the content and stays visible on wide screens. A drawer is a visitor: hidden by default, it slides over the page when summoned — often by a hamburger button — and leaves after you pick something.

How to tell them apart

• Always there, with content sitting beside it → sidebar.
• Slides in over a dimmed page → drawer (that dim layer is the scrim).
• Appears only after tapping the three lines → nav drawer.

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