Questions tagged [dropdown]
widget and menu behavior where hover or click shows contents immediately below.
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Alternatives to nested dropdowns?
When a user uploads a new document, they have to assign that document to a certain category and subcategory. Our current solution uses two dropdowns for this.
The problem
So currently the workflow ...
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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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Showing multi list and drop down hierachy on page
We are dealing with Roles and assigning users to the Roles. Some of Roles which are Admin are not dependant on Context ( Environment - Production, Demo, Developement ), and some ( portal roles) are ...
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Browsers ruin password UX with dropdown menus. How can I fix it?
FYI the image above was taken with autocomplete="new-password"
As you can see, the dropdown is covering the error message (which ends in "letters and numbers" (plus a few other error messages).
This ...
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Is opening a dropdown after clearing it a good practice?
Currently in our application we have a dropdown that opens again directly after getting cleared. I imagine this can be handy for some users, but annoying for others. Is this a good practice to follow?
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Plural or Singular + (s) in title name for dropdown fields
When designing dropdown fields for users that can hold 1 or more values, would you suggest to use the plural form of the title word, or the singular form followed by a (s).
Example 1: Teams
Example ...
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multi selection dropdown - with or without checkbox
I am working on a the design system of a large system for users that use it on a daily basis, and I want to define the multi select dropdown.
on one hand you can know in advance that you have multi ...
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Best practice in Global Dropdown Placeholder
Is there any best practice being applied in a global dropdown placeholder,
let's say the label is:
"Select Fee Option"
I see common placeholders that says:
1. "Select..."
2. "Select any"
3. "--...
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Alternative way to represent to open or close a dropdown?
I'm doing some animation icons for a recent product and I'm playing with some alternative to the standard dropdown toggle. Typically, it's a arrow pointing either down or up...
Is there any reason ...
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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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Hover styling for non-clickable elements?
In our system, currently we have good styling and effects for buttons, for example submit button, cancel button etc.
Now we have a different element. Let's say it is a summary tag element. Which acts ...
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Select from a dropdown (or autocomplete) or add new item in same create / edit view
I've always run into this conundrum: How to give the user a long list of options and allowing them to populate their own if it doesn't exist.
I usually handle this interface by giving an autocomplete ...
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Is it a bad practice for a required switch to start without having any option checked?
I currently have several (required) components in a form, in which I must select only one option (of the 2 that exist). The previous designer used a switch, however the first time none of the 2 is ...
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Dropdowns & Chevrons for Right to Left languages
Assuming we have use a dropdown with a chevron to indicate that it is in fact a dropdown, does the position of the chevron change depending on the directionality of the language? I.E. does the chevron ...
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Multiselect dropdown where selected values cannot be deselected on edit?
I'm trying to find examples of a multi-select dropdown where once the form is saved/submitted, the selected values cannot be removed but, new values can be added.
Currently, I've designed it to work ...
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Date dropdown vs calendar (users are employees)
I am developing a web application for a business that will be used by employees. Employees will input the effective date of a "policy". Effective date can only range from current day to 30 days from ...
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Dropdown variable picker with sibling and child elements
We are trying to make a dropdown variable picker experience more user-friendly. In the current state, here's how it works.
The user sees a Parent database entity that is populated based on a previous ...
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Best practices for showing selection states in dropdowns
I'm designing a CRM-style interface for medical assistants, and I'm wondering if putting a check next to the selected state in a dropdown is redundant if that state is already showing on main screen? (...
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Text input field with multiple options
I have a medical app showing 3 input fields for drug dosage calculation. The middle field has 2 options, either to input the number of drug's ampules (as shown in the image), or to input thenumber of ...
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multi select list menu with 'Other' option
Please help if you have come across something like this use case. Thanks in advance.
Is there an existing pattern where I have a multi select drop down, which also has an 'Other' option that ...
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Nested (hierarchical) list needs solution for multi-select functionality
Our app requires us to allow users to created their own hierarchical groups, then associate documents with those groups.
In my opinion the biggest usability concern is that users also need to be able ...
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Best way to allow user to request dropdown in an autotext template request?
I work at a hospital, where we are trying to standardize user requests for autotext content. The autotext can support inline dropdowns with "alternate" text choices.
Simple example: User wants the ...
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How do I show the selected items in an easier manner in this dropdown
I have a dropdown with checkboxes as items. HERE is the working example
I let people select multiple options from this after they search for it
One problem I notice is that it is not immediately ...
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How to show & change different states of a system for supply chain
Two ways I can think of in regards to supply chain is a drop down showing order status such as not started, processed shipped. Or a slider like mechanism showing progress towards the end similar to ...
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Dropdown vs Modal for table header filtering
I am trying to filter data in tables by converting each header into a split button. Left part of the button will sort the data on click while the right part opens a dropdown at the moment. It looks ...
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Handling Dropdown conditional Dropdowns
I'm working on a material design web-app designed for a mobile/touch environment.
Obviously I have tight space constrains and would like to know what is the best-practice for conditionally providing ...
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What is the name that describes all buttons, fields, dropdowns, etc.? [closed]
There must be a name that describes all the interactive UI components that register data in some manner but unfortunately I can't think of it!
Does anyone know the name that describes all buttons, ...
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Select every Nth element or N element input
There is list of things, for example books. User selects which books should be highlighted. We do not know how many books there are, so user uses index, for example:
The second book should be ...
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Why do dropdown menus have a space between the highlighted item and the border of the menu?
Why do dropdown menus have a space between the highlighted item and the border of the menu?
Why do dropdown menus have a space between the highlighted item and the border of the menu?
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Retaining a value after hiding and un-hiding a field
We have a screen when we hide/disable a comment field based on a value in some dropdown. For some values of the dropdown the comment is shown, for other values it's hidden. For example, imagine a ...
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Need alternative to dropdown in each cell
In each cell I want to show a dropdown which contains values such as 1,2,3... up to 10. But as you can see, if I show a dropdown then the page will be full of dropdowns (As there are 288 cells) and I ...
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How can I replace 3 cascading dropdown menus?
I have a big form where the user must select a category and a location, each have 3 levels, user must select the first option that enables the 2nd and then the 3rd one. Each dropdown have at least 5 ...
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Dynamically changing drop down options
Is it a common design approach to have the options of a drop down menu change depending on another input column.
For example say on one card I have a list of names and I can add/delete/edit the list ...
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Dropdown with a create new button
I have a dropdown that looks like this:
as you can see, I have a button that allows to create a new project, clicking this button will open a pop up (where you can create project).
as soon as you are ...
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Actions inside a dropdown
We need to allow a user to select a project as primary and quick action, he should also be able to add a new project, edit and delete projects (as secondary actions) this is all done in the faceted ...
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Hide 'OFF' Button in Dropdown or make it a separate Button
Everything in one Dropdown or a separate binary-Button to activate Dropdown choice.
The latter one requires more clicks and mouse movement but somehow feels better to me. What do you think?
Sorry if ...
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Looking to use a dropdown and checkbox in the same search field
I am attempting to create a search based off multiple categories. The user should be able to select all that apply. They do not need to select one from every category.
One of the issues I am having ...
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What is the difference between popover menu, drop-down menu & fly-out menu?
What is the difference between popover menu, drop-down menu & fly-out menu? Are they same in functionality or do they vary?
If no, why so many variations?
Popover menu
drop-down menu
Fly-out ...
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Can a drop-down have radio button?
Can a drop-down have multiple options like selecting between views, Freezing the 1st column & customizing the columns? I'm kind of confused whether the drop-down can have this feature. If yes, ...
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Filtering results: Checkboxes vs dropdowns
I'm designing a filter for a website with a job search abroad. Filter has to refine vacancies displayed on the right side. I saw a lot of similar websites with job search use dropdown menus. But on my ...
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Consecutive dropdown or Progress tracker?
Hi there StackExchange!
I am working on designing an analytics portal for an online flyer company. We have multiple client companies, each client company has multiple flyer series, each series has ...
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Dropdowns/Select with changing list of items
I have "dropdowns" and "select inputs" that are fed from a remote endpoint. The list of items coming from the endpoint changes over time, so it's possible that an option selected some time ago is no ...
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What is an effective UI for adding people to joint bank accounts?
Problem
I work for a bank. We're designing an online application system that allows you to open new bank accounts online and then add one joint account owner to each of your new accounts. The people ...
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Dashboard: how to navigate the sidebar through a lot of items
I'm working on an analytical dashboard to help an owner of a restaurant chain to analyse performances of his restaurants. Restaurants could be filtered in groups, depending on places (ie "Show me all ...
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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.
B) ...
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Drop down behavior
I see 3 types of behavior on the web for drop downs and I wanted to collect some insight.
When a user opens a drop down, I observe:
the user can scroll and the drop down stays open (bootstrap)
the ...
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Displaying additional information about elements in dropdown
I need to let users pick 1 or up to many identifiers for an authentication process in a config setup. Each has a name (cant be changed, picked from a dropdown for now as seen below) and a label that ...
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How to handle a single option in a dropdown?
I have an android screen that displays one dropdown select 'spinner' like this (the 'THIS WEEK▼' item)
The app has multiple games and each game has its own leaderboards.
The designer says that if ...
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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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Editable Dropdown UX approach for iOS
We have an input in an iOS app that needs to allow for any value but we would also like to suggest some options.
The number of options will be small, from 2 - 6 with 90% of the possible option lists ...
