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Use Drop-Down Menu’s

  • Keep menu options to a minimum. Each menu option within a drop-down menu creates a JS object which use lots of memory to store.
  • Use the Liberate code extensions to change the background colour of a drop-down menu Liberate's instructions for their HTML extensions to the <SELECT> tag are in the section
  • HTML Extensions in the CDK (Images and colours in selection lists).
  • Developers can download an example drop-down menu (with bg colour set) from the downloads section

Hints & Tips
Empty drop-down menu option tags (e.g. <option value =" ">) are not supported. Instead, code as

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