---
title: "How to hide Prev and Next Navigation buttons in Joomla 3.1 articles"
description: "By default, Joomla 3.0 will dispaly under articles Prev and Next navigational buttons. This is helpful for your readers if they are reading a set of related articles and want an easy way to navigate..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/show-navigation/
date: 2012-09-20
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 3"]
tags: ["Joomla v3"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to hide Prev and Next Navigation buttons in Joomla 3.1 articles

By default, Joomla 3.0 will dispaly under articles **Prev** and **Next** *navigational buttons*. This is helpful for your readers if they are reading a set of related articles and want an easy way to navigate to the next article.

If you want to hide these navigation buttons, you can do so using the *Show Navigation* setting in Joomla 3.0. Joomla gives the following description for this setting:

[![show-navigation](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/edu_joomla-3_writing-new-articles_article-options_show-navigation.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/edu_joomla-3_writing-new-articles_article-options_show-navigation.gif)

**Show Navigation**
*If set to Show, shows a navigation link (Next, Previous) between articles.*

You can see in the screenshot to the right the navigational buttons that we are referring to.

## To hide navigational buttons in Joomla 3.0:

1. [Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard/)
2. In the top menu, click **Content** and then click **Article Manager**
3. In the list of articles on the page, click the article title that you want to toggle the *Show Navigation* setting for
4. You will see several tabs above the article, click the **Article Options** tab
5. Find the setting labeled **Show Navigation**. Next to it, click either *Use Global*, *Hide*, or *Show*. Finally, click the **Save** button in the top left of the page. **Please note!**In our testing this setting did not appear to work as it should. [We submitted a bug ticket](https://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_id=8103&tracker_item_id=29248) to the Joomla! team in regard.