Dropdowns

Toggle contextual overlays for displaying lists of links and more with the MDB dropdown plugin.

Basic example

Wrap the dropdown’s toggle (your button or link) and the dropdown menu within .dropdown, or another element that declares position: relative;. Dropdowns can be triggered from <a> or <button> elements to better fit your potential needs. The examples shown here use semantic <ul> elements where appropriate, but custom markup is supported.

Regular button

Any single .btn can be turned into a dropdown toggle with some markup changes. Here’s how you can put them to work with either <button>; elements:

Link button

And with <a> elements:

Colors

You can do this with any button variant:

Split button

Similarly, create split button dropdowns with virtually the same markup as single button dropdowns, but with the addition of .dropdown-toggle-split for proper spacing around the dropdown caret.

We use this extra class to reduce the horizontal padding on either side of the caret by 25% and remove the margin-left that’s added for regular button dropdowns. Those extra changes keep the caret centered in the split button and provide a more appropriately sized hit area next to the main button.

Sizing

Button dropdowns work with buttons of all sizes, including default and split dropdown buttons.

Directions: Dropup

Trigger dropdown menus above elements by adding .dropup to the parent element.

Directions: Dropright

Trigger dropdown menus at the right of the elements by adding .dropend to the parent element.

Menu items

Historically dropdown menu contents had to be links, but that’s no longer the case with v4. Now you can optionally use <button> elements in your dropdowns instead of just <a>s.