---
title: Introduction to Drawers
framework: cocoa
role: article
path: apple-archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Drawers
---

# Introduction to Drawers

Explains how to use Cocoa drawers.

## Organization of This Document

This document describes drawers and how they work.

The <!--a target="_self" -->UI Element Guidelines: Windows<!--/a--> chapter in *Aqua Human Interface Guidelines* discusses drawers from the point of view of how they relate to other OS X user interface objects.

These are the concepts covered:

- [About Drawers](Concepts/AboutDrawers.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000797-CJBGFCAA) - [Positioning and Sizing a Drawer](Concepts/DrawerSizing.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001524-CJBGFCAA)

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