Dropdown

Toggleable menu for displaying lists of links and actions.

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This component requires the <client-only></client-only> wrap when used in SSR (eg: Nuxt) and SSG (eg: VitePress).

Basic usage

Hover on the dropdown menu to unfold it for more actions.

Use the button to trigger the dropdown list.

Click the triggering element or hover on it.

Use hide-on-click to define if menu closes on clicking.

Clicking each dropdown item fires an event whose parameter is assigned by each item.

You can open or close the dropdown menu by manually use handleOpen or handleClose

Besides default size, Dropdown component provides three additional sizes for you to choose among different scenarios.

Name	Description	Type	Accepted Values	Default
type	menu button type, refer to `Button` Component, only works when `split-button` is true	string	—	—
size	menu size, also works on the split button	string	large / default / small	default
max-height	the max height of menu	string / number	—	—
split-button	whether a button group is displayed	boolean	—	false
disabled	Whether to disable	boolean	—	false
placement	placement of pop menu	string	top/top-start/top-end/bottom/bottom-start/bottom-end	bottom
trigger	how to trigger	string	hover/click/contextmenu	hover
hide-on-click	whether to hide menu after clicking menu-item	boolean	—	true
show-timeout	Delay time before show a dropdown (only works when trigger is `hover`)	number	—	150
hide-timeout	Delay time before hide a dropdown (only works when trigger is `hover`)	number	—	150
role	The ARIA role attribute for the dropdown menu. Depending on the use case, you may want to change this to 'navigation'	string	—	'menu'
tabindex	tabindex of Dropdown	number	—	0
popper-class	custom class name for Dropdown's dropdown	string	—	—
popper-options	popper.js parameters	Object	refer to popper.js doc	`{modifiers: [{name: 'computeStyles',options: {gpuAcceleration: false}}]}`
teleported 2.2.20	whether the dropdown popup is teleported to the body	boolean	—	true

Name	Description	Subtags
—	content of Dropdown. Notice: Must be a valid html dom element (ex. `<span>, <button> etc.`) or `el-component`, to attach the trigger listener	—
dropdown	content of the Dropdown Menu, usually a `<el-dropdown-menu>` element	Dropdown-Menu

Name	Description	Parameters
click	if `split-button` is `true`, triggers when left button is clicked	—
command	triggers when a dropdown item is clicked	the command dispatched from the dropdown item
visible-change	triggers when the dropdown appears/disappears	true when it appears, and false otherwise

Method	Description	Parameters
handleOpen	open the dropdown menu	—
handleClose	close the dropdown menu	—

Name	Description	Subtags
—	content of Dropdown Menu	Dropdown-Item

Name	Description	Type	Accepted Values	Default
command	a command to be dispatched to Dropdown's `command` callback	string/number/object	—	—
disabled	whether the item is disabled	boolean	—	false
divided	whether a divider is displayed	boolean	—	false
icon	custom icon	`string \| Component`	—	—