# Column views

Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/column-views
Skill: hig-components-layout
Snapshot: 2025-02-02

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# Column views

## Best practices

**Show the root level of your data hierarchy in the first column.**

**Consider showing information about the selected item when there are no nested items to display.**

**Let people resize columns.**

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For the complete guidance, including worked examples and illustrations, see the canonical page: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/column-views