Questions tagged [selection]
All questions involving the selection objects to be acted upon, including contiguous selection (e.g. strings of text), multiple selection (e.g. checkboxes), and single selection (e.g. radio buttons).
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Selecting single or multiple nodes in a tree
I'm working on a web application in which users can create a tree hierarchy of nodes. It should be possible to select multiple nodes and list data (documents, images or properties) for those nodes. It ...
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Display of HTML select with optgroup in Firefox [closed]
It seems Firefox is displaying a HTML select element with optgroup different than other browsers. There is an indenting for optgroup label and option labels where other browsers only use indentation ...
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How to show that a radio button has to be selected?
I'm adding a selection with two radio buttons as seen in the example below: But here, the submit button is disabled, because one of the options have to be selected. How can I properly inform my user ...
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Is there a pattern for using one click to select a single option after multiple options are selected (e.g. in a dropdown)?
I have a multi-select dropdown like this: [-] All ––––––––––––––––––––– [x] Department 1 [ ] Department 2 [ ] Department 3 … [ ] Department n In design review, an engineer asked if there's a UX ...
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Add search results to one or more options
I am running into the following problem. Our company has a search page where we can add results to items managed on another page. Now I am looking for a way to make sure it is clear how and to which ...
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Form question with optional and mandatory text fields
This question on my registration form is currently shown as options in a dropdown. We are now having to include optional and required text fields based off the selected answer. Will a dropdown still ...
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Optimizing API Calls for Multi-Select Filters in a Sidebar: Best UX Practices?
I have a filter sidebar with 5+ filters. Each filter allows to select multiple options. For now it is implemented using multi-select(not native one, you need to select items one by one). The issue is ...
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How is it called the border around the previously-selected element in a list?
On several interfaces showing collections of selectable elements, there is a special display for "last previously selected element", as illustrated in these screenshots: I also noticed it on ...
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Feature selector on a pricing component
Currently on our website we has something like this: You can Either chose the main product we sell or an additional feature You can select your contract duration, and Then there's a CTA in the the ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Best UX for Item selection
These modals is for an ecommerce site for product bundles that users are allowed to customize. The customization is a result of one or more item in the bundle being out of stock. Users can basically ...
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What's the best way to select from two options if both can be selected and at least one must be selected?
I have encountered a scenario where the user can filter a dataset of inventory based on two location designations (internal stock vs. external stock). The user can filter for internal stock, external ...
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Select multiple items in a list with a touchscreen, specifically for use cases like file explorers
With a list "select" widget with multiple selection allowed, how to enable the selection of multiple items with a touchscreen device? Drag/drop or swipe cannot be used for selection, it is ...
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Multi-select Dropbox
how should I handle this multi-select for luggage selection. if I remove first bag the next step with throw an error. I was thinking should I only allow the user to delete the last item added or if ...
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What could I use instead of these pill drop down selectors
I am looking for a alternative way to display multiple options for a user selection. The user selects a part and then must select a choice of options which populates a table. I tried with 'pill' ...
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Selection state position after selecting/onload
I'm wondering for a UI element like this, where users can select an option, what should the on-load positioning be? Should the selected item be first? or should I have a divider for selected and the ...
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