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Summary

I want to add a link to an external web page at the top of the sidebar navigation created by st.navigation. I tried using a st.page_link but it ends up below the navigation menu.

Why?

I need this to redirect my users to the homepage of the project (which isn't a Streamlit app)

How?

This can be solved in different ways :

• allow the st.Page widget to target external pages
• create a st.ExternalPage widget which can be fed into the st.navigation widget.
• allow the user to add custom content inside the sidebar navigation created by st.navigation

Additional Context

Minimal working example :

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import streamlit as st


def main():
    st.sidebar.page_link(
        page="https://mywebsite.com/home/",
        label="**Home**",
        icon="🏠",
    )

    def page1():
        st.write("This is page 1")

    def page2():
        st.write("This is page 2")

    pages = {
        "Section 1": [
            st.Page(page1, title="Page 1", icon="🔐"),
        ],
        "Section 2": [
            st.Page(page2, title="Page 2", icon="📚"),
        ],
    }

    pg = st.navigation(pages)
    pg.run()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Which looks like:

Ideally the 🏠 Home button would be above the navigation menu.