widget and menu behavior where hover or click shows contents immediately below.
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Optimal Number of Categories for Users to Choose from in a Dropdown [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Optimum number of choices for menus/navigation
If on a site, a user needs to put their post into a particular category before they submit, how many choices is too many? ...
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Which is better to design a Filter?
Which is better for filter, select a single value:
Check box ( Use js to keep single selection )
Dropdown list
Radio buttons
Highlighted labels
download bmml source – Wireframes ...
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What do UX guidelines say about dropdown boxes in table cells?
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
I have been trying to look at Apple Interface Guidelines and Windows UX guidelines about what standard behavior for drop ...
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Would Breadcrumbs be effective if they incorporate Dropdowns?
I'm currently thinking about adding a quite comprehensive section to a website: the section I'm talking about starts at level 3 of the overall website and itself has another four structural levels. ...
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1answer
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How to accept multiple types of input to a table cell?
I have a problem with a column in a table in which the cells may receive
data in multiple ways:
You may write a number, say 1.0. If you write you can only write numbers.
Place an object in the cell, ...
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1answer
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How many visitors (percentage) click the main category of a multi-level navigation menu (e.g. About Us) and how many select a sub-level?
I'm curious what people instinctively do and whether anyone has data on it. When I go to About Us, for example, I click on it rather than on a sub-lelvel, which usually has "Meet the Team," etc.
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1answer
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Good web-form dropdown alternative for unfamiliar fields?
In general, I try to limit use of dropdowns to lists of no more than ~15 or so options. For larger lists with options the user is familiar with, I tend to favor autocomplete text inputs. However, ...
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OK for dropdown button to be on the left?
Perhaps a minor point, but I thought I'd ask anyway...Normally, the button to drop a dropdown display is to the right of the display area, but I have the option to put it on either side, like so:
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1answer
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Price plan table with multiple payment options
I have a pricing plan table with multiple payment options. I'm not sure whether it is best to place the pricing options in a drop-down (and fire off the submit on the "onchange" event) or simply have ...
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Autocomplete returns more than X records
I have read How many items in a web form drop down is too many?. I almost agree with Vitaly's answer: no more than 30 (X) items in a drop down. So if auto-complete request returns more than X records, ...
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Replacement for long drop-down list
I'm currently working on a part of our application in which the user edits a document. Part of the application allows the user to input certain "parts." We've implemented this as a couple of drop ...
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Any alternative text labels for a “Race/Ethnicity” dropdown? [closed]
The phrase 'Race/Ethnicity' or "Race/Ethnic Origin" is used throughout various data reporting. It just looks so odd with a '/' slash. Any alternatives? Here are a few examples of the slash in 'real ...
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How to explain to director that a multilevel dropdown menu isn't a good idea
My director and designer want to make a big drop-down menu on our site. Multilevel menu :
| MENU 1 | MENU 2 | MENU 3 | MENU 4 |
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2answers
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What examples are there for grouping multiple site tools under one button or dropdown?
We're considering moving links to all our site tools under one button. Clicking the button would open a modal exposing links to these tools. The button would be in the header and be available on all ...
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How to provide keyboard navigation in editable table that includes drop downs?
I'm designing a business application.
When the user enters the main data entity in the application part of the form is tabular. Since some of the users will have an intensive usage of this ...
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3answers
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Selection in a dropdown with two different input formats
I am building a tool which will be used on a regular basis by call center agents. The tool is concerned with supporting products - and as such each product has a product page which contains ...
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3answers
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Better to use hover vs. click to display dropdown menus on main navigation of web app?
I work on a web-based medical records system. In the previous version, main horizontal menu employed ExtJS. It used the standard click to display the sub-menu found in ExtJS. I'm considering whether ...
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jQuery AutoSuggest or Dropdown for Data Input
We are working on an improvement to a project that requires users to enter their state, city, and street to get a result back based off what they entered. The current model asks users to freeform type ...
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Default gender, “Male” or “Female”
Should our default gender when selecting male/female on the dropdown list be based on the local sex ratio (if a country have more female than male then female is the default value)?
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2answers
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“File” for name of drop-down menu
In Windows mostly, a lot (most?) applications have a "File" drop-down menu, with things like "Exit", "Import/export settings", "Preferences", ...
Is "File" a blindly accepted standard/default? ...
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2answers
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Drop down consistency needed on navigation on site header?
I am building a website which has a horizontal navigation in the header. Only some of the top level menu items sub-pages, so there are only drop downs on a few of the navigation options. I didn't ...
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2answers
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Is it ok to use drop-down menus in Mobile Website?
Is it ok to use drop-down menus in a Mobile Website which opens on clicking? Like http://ux.stackexchange.com
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2answers
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A workable tag auto-suggestion design for mobile devices
Over at Stack Exchange we (fairly) recently rolled out a mobile design for all of our sites. This was definitely a 1.0 attempt, and while I think it's a huge improvement over what we had (which was ...
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2answers
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What is the best way to indicate required fields in a deep, category dropdown menu?
We have a UX situation in an enterprise site for a very large customer that has a very deep product list for a support site. We need to indicate that the product field is required, but deeply nested. ...
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All my users are from Afghanistan or how to get users to correctly fill out a form
I have a website with a form users fill out to create an account. Following advice from this forum and other places I am asking for only the minimum required information to create an account ie. ...
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Progressively Filtering Options
I am modelling a selection from a product matrix. The customer envisions this as a series of dropdowns which progressively filter what is available in a subsequent dropdown.
So for example the first ...
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3answers
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What ways can I present an addtional field to combobox when user can't find item they looking for?
I have ComboBox and it has item inside user can select item they want, if they can't find item they can select first item (Not in this list) and input data in textbox (textbox will show if user select ...
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What does the user want to do to see a menu? Press a button? Hover?
EDIT: Thank you everybody for your answers and opinions. Just what I needed and was looking for. I wish I could accept every answer.
I have a huge, unwieldy page that's just a deep, wide table. User ...
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6answers
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Drop-down field with only one value
If there's a form that requires a user to select, let's say, one of the email addresses he/she has on file in his account, would it be bad practice to make that menu item a drop-down regardless of how ...
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When are drop-down menus really necessary?
I always find myself with customers who want drop-down menus because 'they are used to them'. So I started to wonder: When are drop-down menus actually necessary?
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How many items in a web form drop down is too many?
A colleague and I were discussing usability and drop downs and we wanted to know:
Is there a best practice or rule-of-thumb for how many items in a web form drop down (select) is too many? At what ...
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What should be the default option of a required dropdown list?
Given that there is no logically default animal from the list of animals below, what should be the "Default Value" below, according to best practice?
<label for="animal">Animal ...
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Examples / best practices for dropdown menus with checkboxes [closed]
I'm looking for websites with good examples of a dropdown with checkboxes. I know that the gmail labels menu is one, but I'd like to see some more. General best practices are also very welcome.
Is ...
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Alternatives to cascading drop down interfaces
Our development team needs to create an interface to select a vehicle. First the user will select the Year, then the Make, then the Model, and finally an Engine. The valid choices for each choice will ...
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2answers
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What ways can I present sorting options for individual drop downs in a web app?
Say I have a drop down with a full employee name and an ID, comma delimited...
Some users may want to sort the values in this dropdown differently, in this example we'll say they may want to sort ...
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1answer
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Best practice: dropdown selection with associated settings.
We have the following Dialog (see Screenshot) in our software, that I would like to improve.
1) The user should select a profile (screenshot: dropdownbox on the left) to use for the following ...
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How to improve the usability for dynamically populated drop downs?
I am working on an application for a client which has a "unique user interface" in which I want to improve.
Currently, when the user comes to this web page, there's only one drop down shown for ...
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4answers
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How to handle inter-related dropdown choices?
I've got a form containing (among other things) 3 dropdowns, each with about 5-10 choices. The choices in these dropdowns are closely related and some of the permutations will be invalid. This also ...
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FORMS: When to use dropdowns, and when to use dynamic lists?
Interesting that I couldn't find a discussion of this already.
When should we use dropdown selects, and when should we use dynamic lists (updated as you type) in web forms?
My opinion:
Dropdowns ...
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Adding USA at the top of dropdown list of countries. OK practice or not?
Some web sites have a country dropdownlist where USA and Canada are listed at the top of the list (as well in their normal positions). I read once that this was insulting to non US/Canada users. The ...
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Why is there a convention on the web for dropdown menus on hover instead of on click?
This is something I've always wondered. On all major operating systems, application menus (File/Edit/View etc) only appear on click. However, nearly every web site that uses a drop-down menu ...
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2 row navigation vs. dropdowns
I've seen two different types of navigation bars when a site requires nested navigation, one where hovering over a link drops down an additional menu, and one where a second horizontal bar is ...
