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Tech Writing: What's the proper word for a series of choices that's not a menu?

In writing a document for a web application, I encountered the following "menu" (for lack of a better word :) ) Per this scrubbed example, you have a database of fruits and vegetables.

User generated imageIf you select FRUITS, only fruits display. Same for Vegetables.


But what do you call the entity above? I don't like "menu". Maybe "filter"? Beyond that, I'm stumped.


What's the most appropriate word here? Thanks!

Steve

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Hey Scott,
Apologies - perhaps I wasn't clear in my query. To me, a Nav Bar is where you click something and go somewhere else. Sticking with the above example, you're displaying a list of vegetables, and select Celery to bring up detailed info (e.g., price).. Or you're taken somewhere else in the application.

In my case, you're staying on same screen/panel. You're simply limiting the display to either fruits or vegetables.

Thanks.
All of those are valid options. It is just a matter of semantics and what you feel is appropriate.

Hover over the nav bar here on EE.  What you described is essentially the same thing.

Check out some of the UI options on https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/ and look under the Navigation topic. See if any of those options talk to what you are trying to describe.  Keeping in mind, just because one person calls it a foo, another will call it a bar.

Syncfusion has things named similarly https://www.syncfusion.com/javascript-ui-controls

I think those UI sites may help you figure out what to call this for yourself. It would also help to see an actual working example instead of two button looking things.

Hmm...Button and Button Group (from https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/) visually describes this screen component. I'll check my doc and see if those terms might fit.

Getting to end of week, so might not have further response till Monday. Thanks for your help and have a good weekend!
Steve
Hey Everyone,

I ended up using the term filters which tells user what these buttons do, functionally. A filter is a filter is a filter whether the UI employs buttons, a drop-down list of choices, radio buttons, etc.

Scott, thanks for your help. While I'm crediting myself with the "final answer", I will recognize you upon closing out this question. :)
Scott, I didn't have time to review all the links you provided, so I'm a bit hesitant to certify your response as "Helpful", even though it might well be for someone with the patience to follow those links.

I want to give you some credit,  Could you post a couple of sentences w/o providing links.

e.g. All of those are valid options. It is just a matter of semantics and what you feel is appropriate.
Thanks..
Seeing something like that labeled as filters would really confuse me. A filter is usually a dropdown menu of single or multiple select items. I definitely would call them tabs. It is what I usually see them called by other page authors. Could also refer to it as a ribbon, which confused me at first with Microsoft's introduction of the idea, but now it is understood. I think Tab Bar is best.
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@David and @Scott I had the Admins reopen his question so I can take another look next week. Ergo, I removed my "helpful designations" so I can re-evaluate your answers etc. I will give credit next week. Thanks.