Textual prompts are simpler to understand when compared to icons buttons and drop-down lists

A dropdown can be used to select between choices in a form

Selection dropdowns can be initialized directly on a select or with the matching HTML and a hidden input.

A selection dropdown can allow a user to search through a large list of choices.

A selection dropdown can allow multiple selections

A selection dropdown can allow multiple search selections

Dropdowns can support content that may not be allowed inside option tags when converting select elements. For more complex content like flags or icons you can use full dropdown markup

A dropdown can be searchable

A dropdown can include a search prompt inside its menu

A dropdown can be formatted to appear inline in other content

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A dropdown can be formatted so that its menu is pointing

Bottom pointing dropdown menus have sub-menus open upwards

A dropdown menu can appear to be floating below an element.

A simple dropdown can open without Javascript

A dropdown menu can contain a header

A dropdown menu can contain dividers to separate related content

A dropdown menu can contain an icon.

A dropdown menu can contain a description.

Using a description may require setting a minimum width on menu to prevent content overlap

A dropdown menu can contain a label.

A dropdown menu can contain a message.

A dropdown menu can contain floated content.

Floated content may stack to two lines without manually setting a width when or using a fluid dropdown

A dropdown menu can contain an input

A dropdown menu can contain an image

A dropdown can show that it is currently loading data

An errored dropdown can alert a user to a problem

An active dropdown has its menu open

An active state will only automatically open a ui simple dropdown. To activate a normal dropdown use $('.ui.dropdown').dropdown('show');

A disabled dropdown menu or item does not allow user interaction

A dropdown can have its menu scroll

Scrolling dropdowns are incompatible with the usage of sub menu.

A compact dropdown has no minimum width

A dropdown can take the full width of its parent

A dropdown menu or sub-menu can specify the direction it should open

Specifying left on a menu will make all child menus open in the same direction implicitly. To have a dropdown icon appear on the left side on a child menu, you will need to use left dropdown example

Using the clearable setting will let users remove their selection from a dropdown.

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$('.clearable.example .ui.selection.dropdown') .dropdown({ clearable: true }) ; $('.clearable.example .ui.inline.dropdown') .dropdown({ clearable: true, placeholder: 'any' }) ;

Using maxSelections lets you force a maximum number of selections. You can also use form validation rules to specify minimum and maximum validation settings for multi-selects inside forms.

$('.max.example .ui.normal.dropdown') .dropdown({ maxSelections: 3 }) ; $('.max.example .ui.special.dropdown') .dropdown({ useLabels: false, maxSelections: 3 }) ;

Using allowAdditions: true gives users the ability to add their own options. This can work with either single or multiple search select dropdowns

Although all dropdowns support select initialization, custom choices will not be saved on page refresh unless you use a hidden input. This is because option created dynamically are not preserved on page refresh.

$('.tag.example .ui.dropdown') .dropdown({ allowAdditions: true }) ;

Sometimes multiselect include options which are long and would appear awkwardly as labels. Setting useLabels: false will display a selected count, and allow reselection directly from the menu.

You can customize any of the messages displayed by adjusting templates in settings.message

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$('.no.label.example .ui.dropdown') .dropdown({ useLabels: false }) ;

You can reset a form field to its placeholder value

Clear

$('.clear.example .button') .on('click', function() { $('.clear.example .ui.dropdown') .dropdown('clear') ; }) ;

You can restore a dropdown to its value set on page load using the restore defaults behavior. If no default text is set on load, restore defaults will restore placeholder text

Restore All Dropdowns

$('.restore.example .button') .on('click', function() { $('.restore.example .ui.dropdown') .dropdown('restore defaults') ; }) ;

A dropdown menu will automatically change which direction it opens if it can't fit on screen. If you need a dropdown to open in a specific direction you can specify it when initializing a dropdown.

$('.upward.example .dropdown') .dropdown({ direction: 'upward' }) ;

Search selection dropdowns can specify API settings for retrieving values remotely, this can use either a named API action or url.

Using API can allow users to select choices from large datasets that would be too large to include directly in page markups.

If your backend is not designed to return the correct markup you can use API's onResponse callback to adjust the format of an API response after it is received from the server.

Requests for the same API endpoints will automatically cached locally, to avoid server roundtrips. You can disable this by adjusting the cache API setting.

When a user refreshes the page, selection labels are automatically recreated by using sessionStorage to store the corresponding names for selected values. You can disable this feature by setting saveRemoteData: false

$('.remote.filter.example .ui.dropdown') .dropdown({ apiSettings: { // this url parses query server side and returns filtered results url: '//api.semantic-ui.com/tags/{query}' }, }) ;

// Expected server response { "success": true, "results": [ { // name displayed in dropdown "name" : "Choice 1", // selected value "value" : "value1", // name displayed after selection (optional) "text" : "Choice 1" // whether field should be displayed as disabled (optional) "disabled" : false }, { "name" : "Choice 2", "value" : "value2", "text" : "Choice 2" }, { "name" : "Choice 3", "value" : "value3", "text" : "Choice 3" }, { "name" : "Choice 4", "value" : "value4", "text" : "Choice 4" }, { "name" : "Choice 5", "value" : "value5", "text" : "Choice 5" } ] }

When possible choicesets are large, ideally API results should only return values matching the passed query term to reduce transmissions over the wire. However if there are only a few hundred or less choices, you may consider returning the full set of results from an API endpoint and filtering them against the query clientside using the setting filterRemoteData: true.

$('.remote.choices.example .ui.dropdown') .dropdown({ apiSettings: { // this url just returns a list of tags (with API response expected above) url: '//api.semantic-ui.com/tags/' }, filterRemoteData: true }) ;

A dropdown can specify a different transition.

$('.dropdown') .dropdown({ // you can use any ui transition transition: 'drop' }) ;

A dropdown menu can also contain sub menus inside of it

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Using a multi-level menu with allowCategorySelection: true will allow items with sub-menus to be selected.

$('.category.example .ui.dropdown') .dropdown({ allowCategorySelection: true }) ;

This example uses a preset text value to preserve the menu item on page navigation

A dropdown will automatically select on page load any menu item that includes the current value of text or your dropdown's hidden input value.

This is used to preserve a user's selection on page navigation and will automatically remove and default text placeholder formatting.

Current action:

A button can be formatted with a dropdown.

Using the combo action will change the preceding element to the selected value.

$('.combo.dropdown') .dropdown({ action: 'combo' }) ;

Dropdowns support different default actions that can occur when an item is selected. For example, you can set your dropdown not to change its text, or select a value from its menu.

$('.link.example .dropdown') .dropdown({ action: 'hide' }) ;

A button group can be formatted to show additional content as a dropdown

A menu element can contain a dropdown

A dropdown can be formatted to allow selection inside a form

Initializing a dropdown with pre-existing HTML allows for greater performance than initializing a dropdown directly on a select element.

Any select element initialized as dropdown will also be hidden until Javascript can create HTML, this is to avoid the flash of unstyled content, and the change in element height adjusting page flow.

$('.ui.dropdown') .dropdown() ;

You can specify a list of values in the settings object to avoid having to stub the html yourself.

Adding selected: true to an item will have that item selected by default.

You can also use the placeholder setting to specify placeholder text before an option is selected.

$('.ui.dropdown') .dropdown({ values: [ { name: 'Male', value: 'male' }, { name : 'Female', value : 'female', selected : true } ] }) ;

You can specify different values for selected text, and selected form values by adding data-text or data-value to any item. This is useful if you include additional data, like icons, that you want to appear only inside the dropdown menu.

If you don't specify a value (either in the `select` or via a `data-value` property, then the input value will be set to the lowercased text in the element.

For convenience, select elements can automatically be converted to selection dropdown. A select options with blank string values will be converted to prompt text.

$('#select') .dropdown() ;

As a third option, you can include a wrapper around your select so that it will appear correctly on page load, but will then populate the hidden menu when Javascript fires. In this case, the select element does not receive the ui dropdown class.

$('#hybrid select') .dropdown({ on: 'hover' }) ;

Using a search selection dropdown will allow you users to search more easily through large lists. This can also be converted directly from a form select element.

$('#search-select') .dropdown() ;

You can allow multiple selections by the multiple property on a select element, or by including the class multiple on a dropdown.

When pre-existing HTML with a hidden input is used, values will be passed through a single value separated by a delimiter. The default is "," but this can be changed by adjusting the delimiter setting.

$('#multi-select') .dropdown() ;

Dropdowns have multiple built-in actions that can occur on item selection. You can specify a built-in action by passing its name to settings.action or pass a custom function that performs an action.

To specify a different built in action, simply specify the name.

$('.dropdown') .dropdown({ action: 'combo' }) ;

To trigger only your custom action and no default action, specify your own function for settings.action.

$('.dropdown') .dropdown({ action: function(text, value) { // nothing built in occurs } }) ;

If you want to have both a built in action occur, and your own custom action use onChange in combination with action

$('.dropdown') .dropdown({ action: 'hide', onChange: function(value, text, $selectedItem) { // custom action } }) ;

All the following behaviors can be called using the syntax:

$('.your.element') .dropdown('behavior name', argumentOne, argumentTwo) ;

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