dropdown
Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
Adjective
- Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
- Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.
Coordinate Terms: pull-down
Origin
Etymology tree English drop downdeverb. English dropdown Deverbal from drop down.
Forms
Noun
- An instance of a selection object that hides the contents (especially the other choices) until activated.
- That screen is good, but add a couple of dropdowns and it will be perfect.
- Your Web site doesn't have to be full of the latest dropdowns, rollovers, superslick graphics, or Flash videos. - 2007, Ray Foley, Heather Dismore, Running a Bar for Dummies, page 273:
Coordinate Terms: pull-down