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Change The Style of a NavigationSplitView To .balanced or .prominentDetail

Daily Coding Tip 172

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Millie Sturgeon
Sep 14, 2022
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There are two types of NavigationSplitViewStyle: one is .balanced and the other is .prominentDetail.

I’d argue that .balanced is the more ambiguously named one, so I’ll start with that. When the sidebar is open in this version, the detail view is readily accessible. It is possible to interact with this view while the…

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