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dropdown

nounB1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

A dropdown is a list that unfolds when you click it. Choose from the dropdown.

It is the right control for one choice from many and the wrong one for two options. A dropdown with two hundred countries in it is why nobody enjoys forms.

Ar mythra · Public domain

Definitions of dropdown

  1. 1noundropdownA list that unfolds when you click it.B1

    “The dropdown had every country and no search box.”

dropdown is a control.

Where it comes from

Deverbal from drop down.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Computing & Code

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dropdown in the wild

  • With a dropdown menu, one click (or touch or hover) may reveal a hidden menu (sub-menu), with a second click required to select the menu option.

    Interaction cost

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.