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  • Thanks for your answer, it was very informative. I have a problem that, as a first fidelity, I have to lower the effort for development. The list of names is coming from a predefined document from the user, so we wouldn’t be able to add a limit (think of it as a patient document with names of illnesses that the app will pull through as dropdown options still coming from the user but out of our control to limit). Also, translation might add to the length of the words, which is out of our hands. Commented Aug 12 at 0:10
  • Thanks for your thoughtful response and that extra information. In that case, can you do some user research to find out which parts of the labels important? That'd let you more easily decide if the truncation should happen at the center (as suggested by Luke) or at the end, and which method to use for showing the full label. Also, you could learn how much of the other information on the screen must actually be visible while the menu is open. Maybe you can use wider labels after all, depending on what your testers say. Good luck. And again, would love to see what you ended up with. 😎 Commented Aug 12 at 1:02
  • @SaraKarimi when defining the options, you could have a "short" and a "long" versions. The short version would be shown directly in the list. When you select one, the long version is shown. Commented Aug 12 at 8:51