How to Design an Interactive Dropdown in Figma | Beginners Tutorial

Join me in this beginner-friendly tutorial on How to design an interactive dropdown component in Figma. We'll start from scratch, so even if you're a beginner in Figma, you'll be able to follow along easily.

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⏱️Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Component Demo
1:53 - Getting Started
6:35 - Creating Components & Variants
9:48 - Adding Interactions

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[palliasridhar]

I wanted to create a drop-down and was going through several videos. However, this video stood out for the fact that each action was explained. That made a huge difference in understanding a component and variant behaviour. I am not a trained designer. Just learning and doing it myself for my startup and this video explains it in a simple way. Thanks a ton and I will follow this channel for other knowledge. Thank you.

[rezwana_design]

This video has helped me a lot, indeed all of your videos are having good explanations and each step is shown visually so that it's straightforward to recreate whatever you explain. Thanks for making such videos and keep making more to make the work of designers easy

[roxyl]

You're an awesome teacher, very easy to follow

[fr._.]

This tutorial rocks!! 🤟🤟 could you also do the part 2 of this by adding hovering effect when selecting the option? I've tried it myself but I can't link the drop options into text props due to my hover and my main component are not in the same area.

[chi]

Great video! This helped a lot in understanding how variants work! I wonder though how it would work if we add a hover state for the dropdown options?

[warehousetechie]

This is great! Could you make interactive Donut Charts, Bar Charts and others related to Power BI dashboards,

[JanahRoseFernandez]

is there a way to make the dropdown adaptive to size? like if you resize the menu the options will follow its size?

[dcoburn]

Thanks for the great tutorials and UI Kit. I have the UI kit in figma and the dropdown component will not transfer into the library I am getting "Some variants have the same property values applied. Change the values of these to resolve this."

[qwmzndn]

what if we have to add more than 5 box as in my case i have to give 6 option is it possible to edit your template?

[danielperalta]

You also can create a variant with the status, something like: Name: "Selected" - Value "N/A" / Value: "Option 1" / Value: "Oprtion 2"...

[theRIGHTshivam]

I created the same way. It works as expected. But I can't resize it. I need to add dropdowns at multiple places in single form, but when a resize it, it looks weird, text goes out of box(stroke) etc. Is it suppose to work like this or is there any way?
(It's just my 3rd day using Figma)

[himanshuraikwar]

I'm working on a prototype that involves multiple dropdown menus. In this prototype, I want to achieve a functionality where opening one dropdown menu automatically closes any other that is open. How can I implement this in Figma?

[Driirhmnn]

Is it possible to add hover and selected to the options list?

[samfillingham]

Hi - I'm trying to add to the dropdown list, I want to add 2 more options but they function the same as the other 3 in your original droplist, please could someone help me out? :)

[mughniigee]

meri drop down arrow and select value k between jo advance setting m spacing mode hai wo ni show ho rha

[ingesmit]

I copied this dropdown to different frames, and specified different number of 'options'. However, when I run the prototype it applies the same number of options on each frame?

[Designbyvaibhav]

When I am using Multiple drop down in mobile then its overflow the content. Is there any solution for it?

[prasannapastudio]

Hi, Could please recreate this video again, and you are too fast and without any If it any other way to make dropdown selection prototype. i feel it bit complex. pls suggest

[davidhoffmann]

smart solution but doesnt work in autolayout since the layers cant be moved ontop of each other so the next content overlaps the select content

[Misterjacobs]

Everybody knows how to do this shit. IF you want to impress me, make a stack of three of these where the dropdown menu overlays the item underneath and does not push each other down when you open it.