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dropdown

dropdown adjective: dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.

Adjective

dropdown (not comparable)

  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.

Noun

dropdown (plural dropdowns)

  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

dropdown meaning in Indonesian

dropdown in Indonesian

computing: dropping down from above
tarik turun

Forms of dropdown

Adjective
alternative formdrop-down
Noun
pluraldropdowns

Origin of dropdown

Deverbal from drop down.

Words formed from dropdown

Phrases with dropdown

Questions about dropdown

What does dropdown mean?
Dropdown means dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
What is dropdown in Indonesian?
Dropdown in Indonesian is tarik turun. See Dropdown meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is dropdown?
Dropdown can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near dropdown in the dictionary

  1. dropcakes
  2. dropcast
  3. dropcasting
  4. dropcloth
  5. dropcloths
  6. dropdown
  7. dropdown list
  8. dropdown lists
  9. dropdown menu
  10. dropdown menus
  11. dropdowns

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