Timeline for Should a dropdown list be closed when mouse leaves?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| S Apr 23, 2017 at 1:21 | history | suggested | Noah Krasser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2017 at 17:59 | comment | added | Wildcard | @PLL, interesting; on 10.11.6 it's the same in Finder, Safari, Adobe Reader, LibreOffice.... | |
| Apr 22, 2017 at 10:22 | comment | added | PLL | @Wildcard: the Mac behaviour when cursor is near the right-hand edge of the screen is application-dependent. E.g. (at least in OS X 10.9, on the computer I’m using now) the Finder gives what you describe as the Mac behaviour, while Safari gives what you describe as the Windows behaviour. | |
| Apr 22, 2017 at 2:33 | comment | added | Wildcard | Good point about placement, +1. On both Mac and Windows context menus (for right clicking) appear bottom-right to the mouse cursor, unless you are right up close against the right hand side of the monitor—in which case Mac puts dropdown bottom-left from the mouse cursor, and Windows puts dropdown bottom-right as far as they can so it ends up flush against the right side of your screen, with the cursor near the center of its top. (I think the Mac behavior is cleaner, personally.) | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 19:29 | comment | added | DocMax | The other benefit to explicit behavior is, of course, that it works on touch-only devices (think phones and tablets). We do not know enough about the OP's scenario to know if that matters, but I like to keep it in mind whenever possible. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 15:41 | comment | added | Daniel Vestøl | Or move the menu icon to the left so the dropdown still covers the object it applies to. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 15:36 | comment | added | Harrison Paine | I would have the dropdown appear to the right, just so it doesn't completely cover the object it's applying to. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 11:57 | history | answered | Mike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |