Mega menu
Also called: mega dropdown, large dropdown panel, fat menu.
A top-menu dropdown that opens a wide panel with many links, grouped in labeled columns. Big sites use it when they have too many pages for a short list.
A mega menu is a dropdown that grew up: one top-menu item opens a wide panel with many links in labeled columns.
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Say it in a prompt
Make "Products" in the top nav open a mega menu: a full-width white panel under the header with three labeled columns (Payments, Billing, Tools) of 3 links each, and a highlighted "New" link at the bottom. It fades in and moves down 6px over 200ms, and closes on Esc or when the mouse leaves. Seen on
- Stripe: The top menu items (Products, Solutions, Developers, Resources) open large dropdown panels full of links.
You might describe it as
- the big menu that drops down with lots of links in columns
- huge dropdown panel under the top navigation
- menu with several columns of links
Not to be confused with
- Dropdown menu
A mega menu opens a wide panel with columns of grouped links; a dropdown menu is a short single list.