Create a DROPDOWN MENU in Figma (Tutorial) 

Thank you for the tutorial, very easy to follow as a beginner, sometimes figma doesn't want to cooperate for some reason, but retracing my steps usually solved every issue

Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial. It took me about an hour to do this but I'm so happy I kept at it, I'm so pleased with the results. I can't thank you enough!

It took me a lot of pausing the video and doing it myself but I finally got there! Thank you so much this was so helpful!

Thank you, this is the first tutorial I could follow as a beginner and get the result.

Thank you very much! Excellent video and very well explained. Update: To display the selected option in the dropdown menu just check the option "Reset component state" in interaction details for options 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 that were added in the horizontal of "Select an option".

I've watched numerous videos trying to figure this out, and you're the only one who's made it super easy to understand. It's quite impressive how others tend to overcomplicate things.

Thank you very much. I have a few problems with reproducing the tutorial: 1) when at 8:05 I try to move the "list of options" with my mouse, Figma just kicks it out immediately out of the parent component (dropdown menu) and up to the top level. What the heck? 2) when using this drop-down, it doesn't overlaps the elements lying below it. How to fix this?

Amazing tutorial! Thank you!

Thank you. Nice tutorial. Practical and straight-to-the-point 👌

Ditto on all the thank yous! It took a minute (not literally) to get this right, but I got it! Word to the wise: Make sure "clip content" in right margin is unchecked or you will not see the drop-down selections. Thanks, Mavi Design!!

Thank you for clear explanation !

You are doing this awfully fast for beginners!

Thx a lot, I like that you didn't spend hours on simple task. For those finding it too fast, just play the video in slow mode :) Btw -> I am a figma beginer. Never used any design tool

There are times i feel like im out of my depth. this is one of those times. but you def explained it well.

This is so helpful! I was learn alone when try to make this dropdown menu. Unfortunately, i fvckup. Now I know from this video this is so complicated but it’s important to try. Thank you!

Great Video! Highly recommended, even though had been following the instructor step by step and made the first chapter less than a minute the second part took days to find out about the magic of the Parent Component!! It's 12:58 am just solved the problem. watch the screen and details carefully, GOOOD Luck :D

What a wonderfully elaborated tutorial, very helpful ❤❤

Thank you for this tutorial ❣

Good tutorial! Had to slow it down and spent almost 6 hours on it (I’m a beginner), but it worked!

Really appreciate this breakdown! I know many designers will find this to be extremely useful!

Thank you for this! Figma is pretty cool but it can be very complex sometimes

You have explained clearly.....thanks for the video

Hiii thank you so much for this tutorial! I did it. You're very helpful!

Very useful, thanks mate!

Thanks a lot! Great video 👍

I'm really grateful for this tutorial and the Figma community. Like many others, I struggled at the 2:44 point and wasn't able to see the option to "Fill Container". I too was thinking maybe there was a special duplicate process or something. NOPE! The video shows EXACTLY how to do it and I just wasn't paying close attention. So before I reveal the SIMPLE answer, I say hats off to Mavi Design and I won't doubt your mad skills again! (BIG GRIN). OK, here's the big reveal . . . there is no special duplicate process . . . all you need to do is after you have all five options created, just as shown in the video, then turn it into a frame and then a component . . . right there, Mavi has the component selected, and say "I'm going to change the size like this, PRESS ENTER". Bingo, if you don't press ENTER, you have the component selected and you WILL NOT see the option to "Fill Container". As long as you do exactly like Mavi says and PRESS ENTER, which drills into the component and selects all the stuff inside, then go to the horizontal resizing menu and the "Fill Container" option is there waiting for you. Okay, I probably could have written this much shorter, but if you were struggling and this helped, give my comment a Thumbs up, so I don't feel so alone in my confusion. Ha! Thanks Mavi Design . . . I'm a subscriber.

Mavi, please make a tutorial on prototyping. You are the best teacher❤

Really good tutorial, Im using this for a calendar drop down, any advice on how to keep the selection bar fixed at the top and have each option scroll underneath?

So very helpful thank you

Thank you, you helped me a lot

Is there anyway to use nested instances like you did on the single choice radio button component walkthough? This is a great tutorial and thanks for sharing, but it would be even more useful if the end component was one that you could edit with the text inputs on the instance itself. I'm not sure how easy this will be modying so much text for each drop down menu within a prototype.

Thank you and good job! I purchased the source file as a thank you.

Thanks a bunch! at least one useful tutorial for creating a monthly dropdown! Cheers!

how do you add hyperlink to an option that you have selected from the list of options? like when you click on one of the options, it will link to another screen page

This was super helpful..thank you so very much!

Always like me a no-nonsense, clear, and concise guide instead of a corny, cringe, over-hyped for no reason guide. Thank you!

Really helpful!! Thank you so much for this

@mavidesign All were going good but when i make the dropdown menu into absolute position, it cannot be shown when clicking default state

Thanks for the video! loved it. QUESTION: IF I have say 2 different dropdowns one has 3 options and the other has 5 options. Do i have to create another component with the exact number of options or I can hide 2 options in the 5 option component?

This is so smart! Please make more videos about animations🔥🔥🔥

Do I have to make a new component for each dropdown menu I need? Or can I customize the text inside the instance of the dropdown menu for each instance? Changing the text in one instance isn't working, and I need multiple different dropdown menus that look the same, just with different text. Do I need to make a new component for each one?

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. Any suggestions on how to use this for an app? As there is no hover stage for mobile unless i assign a down arrow key to move between options. Appreciate your help Thanks!

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I used it some months ago and it did work perfectly but something has changed. I can't make the selected option in the dropdown visible. I set the selected Option to active in the list but in prototype it always shows the default list. Any idea why?

Super helpful! Thanks a ton.❤💯

thank u man good tutorial! a bit complicated but i can do it!

Something I found out while testing is that we can make the dropdown separated from the "Select option" menu if we make an auto-layout with it before making it a set of components. Then when we create the set with that auto-layout we have the space to move the open menu freely and it will still be inside the auto-layout. Damn, I hope someone can understand XD. But now the smart animate does some weird, subtle stuff that I'm trying to figure out lmao. Thanks again for this tutorial and the other when you explain the auto-layout!

all good, just one question, if I want to change the size of the options box do I have to do it in the main component? or there is a way when can I ajust the size of my dropdown entirely

This is grate video! Thanks so much. The best explanation.

Really helpful video. I enjoyed every bit of it👍

I didnt manage to get the thick stroke working when selecting an option but everything else works perfect. Great tutorial ! Thank you

Amazing, Thanks

Thanks so much!

Small tip: If your Selected option buttons, in the dropdown, aren't the correct colour/visual in the prototype... despite all of your prototype being linked up the same as the vid It's due to the component naming being the same for all your buttons. Rename your selected button component variables, in the dropdowns, to something else like "Selected button" and your prototype will work

Somehow my list of options in the default- yes drop down menu wont connect to the other drop down menu-no visible options, like you do at the 9:20 mark. I can't seem to figure out why thats happening. Any ideas?

Best channel ever!! Keep it up 😍

It was an excellent tutorial, very easy to follow! I'm designing a coffeeshop app and want to use this dropdown for coffee and milk type selection but i have no idea how to add these items to cart with selected options? Any help would be great!

Great video...., this is tutorial that I looking for. Thank you so much. Next, I suggest tutorial data table interactive with figma...

thank you

OMG Thanks❤ It was complicated, but I did it )))😊

Is it possible to do the options with variables so they use the same text?

@4:55 Figma will not let me have 2 “while hovering” states. Trying to find a way around this with the selected hovering state. Not sure if settings changed here within the past couple of months.

May i ask why the button is not in the active state when we already choose an option and wanted to change the option?

HI. i love your tutorial, but how you duplicate options? every time when i do command+d i just create one more option inside of the component, how can i create a duplicate of component, not making one more option of component?

I'm trying have this button in multiple places, but at each page when I protoype, it shows the last selection. Any idea on how to fix that?

Thank you

Thank you!!!!!!

That's why to create components and its states I always use XD. Easy and simple........

Hi. My dropdown menu falls below my other contents. Do you know how to fix it?

thanks for the greate video and explenation! at the same time im wondering that there is no collection for basic dropdown widgets in figma

Anyone get the prototyping problem that the Selected Options list doesn't appear when an Option is selected? I've got all the right connections in prototype, and when testing I get the Yes state option showing, but the List of Options is always the default state, not the selected option.

So much hustle!!!!

thank you! that is great tutorial. please, could you say if it is possible to close the dropdown when mouse is clicking outside the options menu? I am searching for the solution, but found only the way with frames for each variant, however it would be more elegant to do it into component. What do you think?

How did you get a different colour for the border on the left for the drop down options? If I have blue left border for option variant then I can't have right and bottom borders to be same colour as drop down box border (grey) ?

Very nice tutorial and Figma is definitely is going into the right direction! But saying that... I made the same dropdown menu including all the visual effects in Axure and it only took me only 5 minutes using dynamic panels!

Cant we use the dropdown when we hide it? I want use in in the other page, so when i try to hide the dropdown component i am not able to click ont dropdown

Hi! I'm having a problem with the prototyping part. I cannot connect the menu options as you show at minute 11:39. What could be the problem? I followed all the steps. Thank you!

Such a good tutorial!! Thank you for showing me how to do this :)

thaaaaaaaank you for this video

thank you sir

Thank you very much for this tutorial, i have tried it and it works but i encountered one problem. When i am on the prototype screen, the selected option does not display the selected property. I have redone each step twice over and I get the same result, the hover works. If i change the selected option from the master component, it works but when i change it manually on each instance, it doesn’t work. Why??

I dont have a command key on my laptop in order to do command x and command v. what do i do? (im at the part where you use those buttons to put the list options under the dropdown (7:56 minutes in video)?

Stuck at 9:30 connecting the menu options to the different components - mine won't seem to connect from the drop-down option to the component...any suggestions?

Please i did this exact thing. My options are selecting properly, but the shaded part for the selected option isnt showing after selecting an option on the drop down menu. Please why?

for all those having problems connection the options to the dropdownmenu, check your layers! the optionlist has to be under the open-dropdown component!

Thank you for the tutorial, but I have a question, how to make it to return to "Select an option" when you click outside of dropdown?

dude how to make the dropdown option if there is no option that we select to back with the word "select an option" again?

You are awesome!!!

Thank you!!! Looks easy but definitely takes time for a bignneer 😅

Nice! Subbed.

Thank you!! You explained clearly and it worked for me!

I followed the steps but in the dropdown menu the selected option is not appearing infact all the Option dropdown menus are showing the default one with no selected option Can anyone help me out here where I'm going wrong Thanks

Followed all the steps but I am not able to do the last prototyping part. it's just not getting connected the way I want. also, the video is pretty fast.

Gracias 🤩

I'm learning Figma for a weeks. I feel like this rushing. if there's aw that you could not be rushing will be helpful. aw found this helpful.

Hi how do I have the list that opens be on top of any form fields underneath it? Right now when I expand it the list appears under the input field underneath the dropdown list.

Question, how do I make it so that I am able to click one option in the drop-down and it takes me to another page.Since the component is closed, i tried by placing the component on a frame, right click->change variant->visible options on yes (so I see the drop down)->dragged the prototype from the drop down to another page->then set visible options on no, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way, please a little help? Thank you!

The making of the frames and components is good I wish you actually spent time explaining how and why you added properties or named them that way. I think that where a lot of the general confusion is coming from

No se puede cambiar el nombre de las opciones, se queda como option 1, option 2, ...

Hi @mavidesign After completing the whole process, while prototyping everything works perfectly except the selected option is not showing as selected in the list of options. Can you please help me on this?

ty bro