Questions tagged [combobox]
A combo box is a combination of a list box and a text box.
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Spinbox direction hints and time relation
I'm trying to write an input widget that allows to set a timer, having visually defined sections for seconds, minutes, hours and, possibly, days.
Right now it fundamentally is a personal project for ...
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Should search fields be placed inside the container (combo box) or inside the dropdown list?
When the user has to select from many options in a dropdown menu, a search field where the user may input text that filters the options can help find the desired option. There are two UI elements that ...
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Selection Dependent Dropdowns - One is Selectable By Case
We have three fields:
One is a selection for Types, let's define it as C
The second one is dependent on C, let's define it as N
The third one could be selectable by case, meaning it is not displayed ...
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Varying number of categories and subcategories based on options selected
Designing a form where the user needs to select 3-4 levels of categorization. for this, I'm looking at using 4 horizontal combo boxes (refer image below).
Depending on what the user selects in box A, ...
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Should a dropdown be marked required if it has a default value?
I'm designing a form to create violations of employees from various departments. For quicker choosing the employee, I have a field for users to filter the department that the employee is from.
Value ...
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Clear all in a multi-select drop down
i'm designing a form that includes this multi select combo box. by default all the options in it are selected. but when filling the form the user will be required to select 1-2 options. this form ...
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How to show total as well as distributed total among categories
There is a total section on my dashboard and below that, a grid with all the list of data. As a total number of items and their total values need to show on top of the grid distributed among ...
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Best input to select 2 of 4 options
I have a project requirement where our users need to be able to make 1 or 2 selections out of 4 possible options.
Along the lines of:
What is your favourite food? (Pick up to 2)
Pizza
Chocolate
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How effective using Combo Box in Mobile App UI?
Thought about adding a multi value combo box with tags autocomplete
Are there any statistical studies about how users feel about this component? is it easy to use? or is it complected for the average ...
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Filtering options for a combobox
I currently have a log-on dialogue box which I present to users when they wish to log onto a target system. As I have quite a number of possible target systems, I offer them a combobox in which they ...
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Combobox with a lot of (thousands) of options
in my project there is a form. One of the field is problematic for me.
User should choose an option from a very long list (thousands of options).
I wanted to do it by combobox, but I don't know how ...
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Is there a need for a confirmation button on a multi-select comboboxes?
Is there any reason we should include a confirmation button on our multi-select comboboxes? What are best practices for the design of these controls?
Mouse Functionality:
Clicking outside of the ...
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How to display an active ruleset in a combobox?
In our application, we have a small bar with settings. We're currently adding the ability to save multiple rulesets of settings that the user can easily switch between.
I've added a simple combobox ...
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Should a linked combo be total empty if you cant select from it?
I have two linked combos, Year and Week.
Right now the starting state show Select Year as the option for Year and nothing for Week, because you havent select any Year yet
When you select Year the ...
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Timer settings, when to use a combobox or spinbox?
I was creating a mockup for an login settings window, and when i came to the option for "auto logout", i was wondering if it should be a spinbox, allowing the user to set any value (in minutes), or a ...
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Text in a Multiselect-Combobox
On a form in my application I have a combobox that allows the user to select one or more functions to be used in the task at hand.
I have used a Combobox that shows a list of checkboxes in its ...
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When to use combo-box vs dropdown?
We have a dropdown list that allows for the selection of up to 24 city names.
I'm trying to make the case to change that into a combo-box, which would drop down to a suggested top 10 elements, and ...
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how to display nested options within a combo box
If there are a lot of options to choose one from within a single combo box, what's the best way to do it?
here's an example of the structure
answer category 1
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- answer 2
- answer 3
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What's the most used 2-digits abbreviation system for the names of mexican states?
I'm coding a health system which should offer a menu containing the list of mexican states (and DF) in a patients' creation section.
I know there is RENAPO's standard, but it differs from other ...
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How to handle the initial state of combo boxes?
New user to ux exchange here, so sorry in advance if this question isn't proper in any way.
I'm making a small program for fun to calculate the points in a cribbage hand. Here is the gui that I have ...
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How intuitive to use image as an option in combo box?
While designing a question for survey, we came across a multi choice question where responses(answer options) are mixture of both images and text i.e, A. Image B. Text C. Text D. image. Now we need to ...
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When does a combo box get unwieldy?
I'm working on a product which has a bunch of selectors that can have anywhere between one, and several hundred possible selections with no way to be absolutely certain how many possible options there ...
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Multiple data entry for a form field
I am creating a form that contains, among its different search criteria fields, a textbox where users can specify none, one or more phone numbers. Initially users could only specify one or no phone ...
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Single Select Mechanism [closed]
Are there any mechanisms for single select besides radio buttons and dropdown menus (combo boxes)?
Here's an image of the layout I'm designing:
Users can only single select a product, and the ...
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What's the optimal order of choices within a combo box drop down?
I have a combox box showing the possible roles that a user can have in an organisation.
There is a rank to these roles such that:
Super User > Administrator > Manager > Cashier
When creating a ...
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Ideal visual weight of indicators such as dropdown triangle
I am working on a software where the UI is designed by a manager instead of UI experts. This has lead to many problems and inconsistencies in the visual design, user expectations and standards of the ...
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How to make this single window tool more user friendly?
I am building a simple tool which accepts a URL, a username and a password. The URL contains one or more sets of data. After the users enters the URL, username and password. The tool then retrieves ...
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Many dependent combo boxes used as filter
I have 6 combox boxes used as filter for a data table. Each combobox is filled with many values. (100-1000)
If user select a value in a combox, the other comboxes should constraint the "selectable" ...
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What combo box button is preferable?
Of the two shown below, which is the preferred style--if any--for a combo control? (that allows you to type in it or click the button or arrow to show a drop-down with choices to select...in this case,...
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How is the best approach to display responsive combobox?
I would like to implement comobobox with a search filter for phones, larger screens and tablets.
The examples below show how I think it should behave for phones and larger screens. I'm still fomenting ...
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What's the right behavior for the tab key on a combobox?
What should happen if a user is scrolling through items in a combobox with the keyboard and they press the Tab key? Should it behave like the Enter key, selecting the currently highlighted item and ...
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From and To Month-year range selector [duplicate]
Requirement in our app is to provide a UI control for user to select 'from' month/year and 'to' month/year over multiple year.
With validations like 'to' month cann't be less than 'from' month.
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Where is it better to position an Add combobox - below table or on top of table?
I have a table that can be filled with pre-configured items. I also have a combobox that user can select an item from it - either by scrolling it or by starting to type and using auto-complete (the ...
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Select any combination of items, but at least one
Quite often we allow to choose multiple items, this what are checkboxes are actually exist for. But in some scenarios something always had to be chosen.
For example, quite often user can have may ...
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Correct Use of ComboBox
I'm trying to think about a better interface for a combobox and grid control that I have in WinForms application. The combobox is used a search box to find Tenants that we have in a database. A user ...
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How do I display an 'all' option to users in a multi-select box?
I have a combo box that lets user choose airlines. Below is the (draft) snapshot.
I want to keep an icon infront of it (right now I have a tick mark which has to be replaced with an appropriate icon)...
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Highlighting a property in combobox
I am currently doing an application with a combobox, like this:
Obviously the visuals can be better, but leaving that aside: How can I highlight a boolean property of a particular element? A bullet? ...
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single radio button vs 2 radio buttons vs checkbox
I am having a user enter search terms to search a document.
The issue of how to have them determine if that term is case senstive when being used.
OPTION 1 - I was thinking to make it a dropdown ...
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What should the "other" option in a drop-down say?
The app will have a drop-down box. One of the options will be something like
(Enter your own reason)
If that option is selected then a text field will be displayed.
Question: what is the suggested ...
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Combo Box/Dropdown control that allows new values
I'd like to create a dropdown list control in a form that allows users to either select a value from the list, or type a new value. Typing a new value and saving the form will result in that new ...
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Is there a common term for an editable/searchable drop down field?
What is the common name or design pattern for a UI element which is like a combobox but has the added facility of typing to refine the options returned in the drop down.
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Combobox items with Tooltips
I was thinking of using a searchable\predictive text combo box to allow a user selecting an item from a very long list of items with long names (lets say from a list of 200 items). I thought it would ...
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Name for a combo box that shows and edits multiple items?
Is there an accepted name for a UI element that allows the user to enter multiple values, displaying each value as visually distinct, and provides autocomplete matching like a combo box?
Examples are:...
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Adding "Select..." as first option (placeholder) of dropdown list
Would it be considered a good practice to add the word "Select..." as the first option of a dropdown list? I think it's redundant and not at all necessary and what is in the dropdown list should be ...
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When to combine comboboxes?
Let's say that my GUI has two fields to configure: input and output.
Both fields are implemented with comboboxes that may have the following values:
Input Values: A, B, C, D, E, F
Output Values: 1, 2,...
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Group of controls depending on value of combo box
In a UI, I get the user to make a selection from a combo box. This selection influences what other controls will need to be shown. There are also other controls that need to be shown, independently of ...
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Where did combo box/drop-down lists come from?
Where did the design of combo box or drop-down lists come from?
Radio buttons can be used similarly, and also have a real-world analogy without computers (those fill-circle-with-HB-pencil papers). A ...
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When should a select be replaced with a combobox?
I'm working with a site that is currently making heavy use of comboboxes. In fact, every select in the whole application is automatically turned into a combobox on page load.
My first inclination is ...
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displaying cascading comboboxes
I have a text editor with several tools on a page. and I want to add cascading dropdowns to the tool list. For example, I have two comboboxes:
1st is filter with values:
All -selected by default ...
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Should the currently selected item in a combo/dropdown box also be included in the list of choices?
For example, you have a combo box which contains 10 elements including the one that is currently selected. When you prompt to drop down the list to choose another, should the currently selected item ...
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