01
Overview
Individual link within a side navigation, supporting nesting and active highlighting.
Usage
SideNavigationItem is a compose-only leaf of SideNavigation.
The idiomatic API is SideNavigation.Item, reached through the parent
namespace — see the side-navigation README for the composed
snippet. The flat @lostgradient/cinder/side-navigation-item subpath remains exported for
à-la-carte builds that import the leaf directly.
02
When to use
Use when
- Rendering one entry inside a side-navigation column or side-navigation-group.
- Keeping list semantics correct so screen readers announce sidebar entry counts.
Avoid when
- Placing entries in a horizontal navigation-bar — use navigation-item directly.
- Rendering outside a side-navigation list — use navigation-item without the list wrapper.