Dropdown
Guide for using dropdown in your applications
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Guide for using dropdown in your applications
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This guide will show how to use Dropdown in your applications. See how easy it is to drag and drop Dropdown onto your forms and connect them to your business logic. Dropdown can be modified, styled and even changed at runtime.
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Dropdown, like all components, have properties which can be modified at design-time to set the appearance and behavior of the component. Select the Dropdown in the to see a list of properties in the . Below are some common properties and how to set them at design-time.
The text displayed on a dropdown can be modified by setting its property. Most often, this will just be plain text, such as "Options" or "Choices". In this case, just enter the value into the editor. For more options open the .
Dropdown, like many components, can display tooltip messages when a user hovers their cursor. Most often, this will just be plain text that describes what will happen on-click. In this case, just enter the value into the editor. For more options open the .
Dropdown, like many components, can be enabled or not enabled in order to allow users to interact with it or not. It can also be changed on runtime.
Dropdown, like many components, can be set as visible or not visible when launching an application. It can also be changed on runtime.
Like all components, a dropdown can be styled using themes, variants and raw CSS. To apply any available style class, simply enter one or more space-delimited values for the styleClass property.
Like most components, dropdown has events, which allow you to execute some logic when something happens in the UI. Of course, the most common event for a dropdown is the onMenuItemSelected event, which is triggered when a menu item from the dropdown component is clicked.
dropdown, like many components, can be modified at runtime through code. Below are a few examples of controlling a dropdown from code.
You can easily change the enabled state of a dropdown at runtime.
You can easily change the visible state of a dropdown at runtime.
Like most components, a dropdown has API methods which can be called from code. Below is an example of common API calls.
You can easily add a style class to a dropdown using the addStyleClass method.
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To Handle the event, double-click the value for the onMenuItemSelected property in the . You will see the . You'll have the option select an existing Method or create a new Method. The method will be called when the button's onMenuItemSelected event is fired and the object will be passed to it.
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You can easily give keyboard focus to a dropdown using the method.