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Google and some other developers have introduced us to what some have called the hamburger menu button and now the 3 vertical dots button or vertical ellipsis. What is the official name of these buttons/icons?
It would be nice if developers could consistently use a particular icon for menus. It would also be nice to know what to tell novice users to press.
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Horizontal Ellipsis … … … …
Apple uses the horizontal ellipsis and calls it the More Options icon.
According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called "more horiz".
Vertical Ellipsis ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮
Google+ for desktop seems to use this as a menu for communities. The Google+ app uses this icon as a standard menu icon.
According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called "more vert".
Identical To ≡ ≡ ≡ ≡
Google Chrome uses an image similar to Identical To and calls it the Chrome menu.
It has also been called the "hamburger" icon, "hotdog" icon, Options menu, Menu button, Overflow menu, Side menu, Menu drawer...
According to https://design.google.com/icons/ the icon is called "menu".
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The hamburger button (the triple bar ≡ or trigram symbol ☰), so named for its unintentional resemblance to a hamburger, is a button typically placed in a top corner of a graphical user interface.
Ellipsis = “More actions” More and more apps are now using a midline ellipsis (⋯) to indicate a menu with more actions. It basically means “Hey, there's more stuff you can do here.” In many Android apps, you'll often see a vertical ellipsis (⋮) to mean the same thing.
The 'burger' is used to open a 'burger menu', which is presented as a drawer that appears from the side of the screen and occupies most of the screen; The 'kebab' (three vertical dots), which originated in Google's Material Design languge, is designed to open a smaller inline menu from a button or other control.
A hamburger icon, in user interface (UI) design, is a navigational symbol consisting of three stacked horizontal lines that indicate the location of a hidden menu. The icon got its name from the fact that its structure resembles a burger in a bun in a simplified graphic.
Look at this photo, it says "Kebab Menu" is a correct answer:
per comment below, sourced from Luke Wroblewski: https://twitter.com/lukew/status/591296890030915585/photo/1
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For the 3 vertical dot icon, these are the most popular names
For the remaining, here is the list.
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