dropdown

Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.

Adjective

  1. 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

drop-down

Noun

  1. 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

Forms

dropdowns drop-down

Related

droplist