Dropdown Textbox

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The dropdown text box component appears as a button with some text that becomes available or unavailable upon clicking. It serves as a way to hide explanatory text for saving space. This component can be called using the iv-dropdown-text-box tag.

DropdownTextBox.png

Technical information

The iv-dropdown-text-box is a button allows users to display/hide a text box. It is possible to disable the dropdown.

Props

Name: buttonText

Type: String

Default: "Click me"

Description: The string for the button content


Name: dropdownText

Type: String

Default: "Add text"

Description: The string for the text box content


Name: dropdownDisabled

Type: Boolean

Default: false

Description: Disable the dropdown button


Events

Name: dropdownclicked

Description: Emitted when the dropdown button is clicked

Value: click event


Usage

To insert a text into the dropdown box, bind the text to the dropdownText prop. To change the button text, bind a new text to the buttonText prop. To disable the dropdown, set the dropdownDisabled prop as 'true'.

DropdownTextBoxInitial.png

DropdownTextBoxShortText.png

DropdownTextBoxLongText.png

Design choice

The blue button is chosen to fit in the general ImpVis blue while the grey dropdown box acts as a flashcard.