Questions tagged [dropdown]
Use it only for questions regarding dropdown lists
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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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Not available options: Disabled or hidden?
I have a form with these elements:
A checkbox
A dropdown with a list of options
It is an eCommerce site which uses points as currency. During checkout user has the following options: The checkbox ...
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Best practice for selecting month/year
I have a form where users can choose a month and year to display a series of reports.
(there is no need to choose the day - all the reports for that month will be displayed)
What is the best practice ...
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Side Navigation Arrow Placement Right or Left?
I have been working on a project that involves reconstructing a page side navigation. Throughout the project i've researched current trends in navigation structure and noticed arrow placement on the ...
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Dropdown: placeholder vs. blank
Which is better for "non selected" state?
A) Placeholder
On usability tests, with this options people are omitting this field. They seem to think that it's not required or it's already chosen.
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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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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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When to start opening the select list? On mousedown? Or on click? And Why?
Component: select aka. dropdown
Platform/system: web, non-touch device (laptop with trackpad or desktop with a mouse)
Is there a guideline, convention, or some studies done which can help developers/...
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Should a blank option always be included in <select> inputs?
For example when asking a user what pet they have and it's a required field, a Please select option is included since the pet is currently unknown:
<select required>
<option value="&...
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Dropdown option order best practices when not using alpha sorting
Looking for best practices on ordering dropdown options when using a logical sort vs an alphabetical sort. To keep this from being open ended, here are some specific cases:
Chronological - i.e. ...
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Sorting tabular data using a dropdown menu?
I'm working with a table of data and am focusing on the sorting functionality. I'm considering using a dropdown menu as opposed to traditional table header sorting (where you click the heading to sort ...
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Dropdown select or Dropdown select + button?
There seems to be two contradicting conventions on web applications. One is that a Dropdown-control also is an action button, meaning that when a user selects an item in the Dropdown control, an event ...
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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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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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What's the best way to present a nested drop down menu but avoid the drop down going off screen?
I'm currently working on a design that originally was using a nested drop down meny like so:
But, when a user clicks on the "more" icon of the card furthest to the right, the drop down menu no longer ...
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Drop down list vs. clickable map
I'm working on a web tool that requires users to choose their region as a search filter. I'm trying to decide if it will be best to use a drop-down list (there will be 15 regions) or a clickable map ...
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What is a good way to display side navigation levels?
For the past few weeks I have been working on reconstructing my employers side navigation. While attending a recent meeting, discussion on side navigation hierarchy arose and there was a debate on how ...
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Alternative way to display too many buttons
I'm working with a user who wants to have everything at a push of the button. When viewing a record, he wants big buttons across the top of the screen to return to the search, return to the search ...
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Are Drop-Down Menus Outdated and Poor Practice? [closed]
I have read sentiments online about the demerits of the trusty drop-down menu.
EDIT: By 'drop-down menu' I refer to the navigation bar on a home page, not a drop down list on a form.
Is it really ...
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Best usability: visual presets or simple action?
I'm working on a webapp that lets designers generate CSS through an intuitive interface. Right now I'm working on the Shadows panel and I can't decided which option has the most versatile usability. ...
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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 down ...
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Should I change how a list is displayed based on number of options?
In a web application I work on, I have been asked to change an existing 'Owner' field from being free-form to accept only predefined values from a list.
Sometimes that list can be manually configured ...
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List of languages
I am designing a screen with content that can be translated into 40+ languages.
the flow is: the user creates content, then selects the languages he would like the content to be translated to from a ...
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Should dropdown list option be removed if the options cannot be repeatedly selected?
Let's say, I have a dropdown (html select) of questions from which a teacher can pick up questions to present to their students. The options available in the dropdown can only be picked once i.e. the ...
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Alternative to dropdown with over 6000 values [duplicate]
On a login form where the user must select the name of the store location that they are logging into, there may be up to 6000 values. For a company that only has 5-10 locations the dropdown works well....
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Html best input type for boolean values selection
In web development, html , what is the best input type to be used if users are only given two choices? basic true or false for example? active or inactive?
my choices are: two radio buttons, dropdown ...
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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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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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Nested dropdowns in mobile view
So i build a website using bootstrap.
The problem is that i have nested drop downs. The link below is image for dropdowns that look nice and not cluttered in desktop version.
However this is how it ...
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Is it better to mix 'km' and 'm', or just stick to km and one way of displaying data
I have a list of distances in a dropdown, as in the examples below.
Is it better to stick to km across the board, eg:
0.1km
0.5km
1km
3km
5km
10km
50km
100km
200km
or to use m for the smaller ...
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Arrows for Navigation/Menu/Expandables Misleading?
When a user visits a site they are presented with some sort of Navigation Structure. Typically the arrow is a standard convention that alerts a user that when this item is clicked an action will occur....
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Is it better to put text field for drop down with more than 15 items?
UXMovement.com recommends over 15 items in a drop-down should be a text field.
I have a drop-down on a form field, on a web page, which has more (about 40) items to choose from.
Dropdown value ...
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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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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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Checkboxes in a dropdown. Need a "validate" button?
I use a dropdown menu with checkboxes to select multiple options for field.
I am not sure if I need a "validate" or "save" link, or if the user will understand that they just have to click outside ...
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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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Dropdowns within dropdowns
We are mocking out new notifications and requests panels for our web app and I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on a better way to represent this concept of a dropdown within a dropdown.
I don't ...
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How to enhance bilingual - auto suggest search box?
Our users need to submit a form for submitting a request. Form is available in multiple languages. This form has text box ( the most important field, works as a auto suggest search box). We used to ...
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Why not default a user's view to the middle of a sorted list?
Is there a compelling reason (besides convention) why a user's typical default view of a long sorted list is always the beginning of the list and not the middle? Assuming a random distribution of ...
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Long select dropdowns
I'm working on a responsive landing page where users arrive after clicking on online ad. On the form, users need to select a location (105 possible) at which they would like their service. ...
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User-friendlier dropdowns with hoverIntent?
Is it a good idea to use hoverIntent (which introduces a slight movement-predicted delay to prevent accidental hover-offs) for user-friendlier dropdowns?
http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery....
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Better way to show Priority Level in drop down
I just found below drop down for showing priority levels in JIRA:
Does the above drop down - with icons and supporting message clearly demonstrates the priority levels?
If not, then what will be the ...
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Choice Box or Tabs for multiple contents in a view [duplicate]
I am going to display a small view in my application that contains contents to be picked. The contents are sorted in an undetermined quantity of categories.
Would it be preferred to sort them in ...
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Break up options in a drop down by scope
I'm working on a social application whose main component we'll call Object. On the Object view there is a drop down that can contain as many as 9 options.
Some of these options impact only a single ...
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Tab selection vs Drop down selection
I'm trying to figure out what is the best UX that I could possibly implement for a mobile phone app. Either selecting of data via tab header or a dropdown.
Solution 1 - Tab Header
It is easy for ...
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How should I implement a 'recently used' list in a dropdown function?
I'm building a complex web app that has a number of places where the user will need to select things from dropdowns. The dropdown lists can be quite long. We are already using the Select2 library to ...
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Instant auto complete/search on thousands of results
I am working on an enterprise application for maintenance software. The task I am designing for currently includes a drop-down selection form field for the user to select an asset or vehicle that they ...
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Dependent pick list and multilevel selection
I have to design a prototype where the user has to choose from a lot of selection, multi-selection and dropdown widgets. All choices are dependent on each others and there will be a lot of complex ...
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Mobile navigation - off-canvas or dropdown?
I'm working on a responsive site where the main navigation gets compressed to a "menu" button when at a mobile small-screen size. I feel like there are 2 strong methods for handling the navigation:
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Are Radio Buttons or a Drop-down more appropriate to scope a search?
Below are Mock-ups of the two choices to scope the search. The radio buttons would expose all choices initially. The drop-down search pattern I've seen more often, and I think users would be more ...
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