Dropdown

Menus are just being adopted, many of these ideas can change. The dropdown menu is used in different places with slight variations.

• The search pulldown in the main toolbar
• The action pulldowns in section headers
• The image action pulldowns over images

Basic structure

• The menu is displayed by an icon in the toolbar
• On hover it is displayed negative.
  • On toolbars the icon is black, negative is a white icon in black background. The background is 100% height of the containing toolbar (40x40px).
  • On an image the icon is white, negative is black on white square 30x30px.

Different menus

• Basic menu with selectable rows
• Persistent menu for nested elements
• Settings panel is a flyout menu. It needs to stay visible and not disappear with mouseout.

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  Persistent menu for nested elements Step 2

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  Persistent menu for nested elements Step 3

Different rows

• Title row, same for all menus
• Row with a submenu or a link to a modal or a tool is displayed with a caret pointing right at the end of the menu item.
• Subselection inside dropdown row is ore instant.
• End row: Create item, show more, show all. One or more per row.

Other controls

• Long result lists can be displayed with a scrollbar

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