Guidelines:Drop Down Menu

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A drop-down menu appears when the user clicks on a title in the menubar, focusses the title and presses Return, or presses the accelerator key for this menu title.

Guidelines

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  • Only place items on a menu that relate to that menu's title.
  • Organize menu items according to the guidelines (see section Designing Menus), and if possible in consistency with the standard menus (see section Standard Menus).
  • Provide accelerator keys for every item in the menu (see section Keyboard Accelerators).
  • Do not add or remove menu items while the application is running, disable them instead.
  • In component-based applications, entire menus may be added or removed from the menubar at runtime.

Accessibility Notes

Implementation Suggestions

See Also

Menus

Related To

Context Menu Menu Bar Menu Items Submenus