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.

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! 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".

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

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

What a wonderfully elaborated tutorial, very helpful ❤❤

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!

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

Awesome tutorial, thank you so much!

You are doing this awfully fast for beginners!

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.

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

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!!

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

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

Really helpful!! Thank you so much for this

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?

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

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

Thank you for clear explanation !

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

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

Thank you for this tutorial ❣

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

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

Really helpful video. I enjoyed every bit of it👍

Best channel ever!! Keep it up 😍

Super helpful! Thanks a ton.❤💯

Very useful, thanks mate!

Amazing, Thanks

Thanks a lot! Great video 👍

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

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

Thank you so much

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!

Thank you, you helped me a lot

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

So very helpful thank you

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?

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

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

OMG Thanks❤ It was complicated, but I did 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!

Thanks so much!

You are awesome!!!

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...

thaaaaaaaank you for this video

Gracias 🤩

Nice! Subbed.

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

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?

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

I DIIIIIID IT!!!!!!!!!

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?

thx u💗

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

thank you sir

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

Thank you!!!!!!

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

So much hustle!!!!

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

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?

ty bro

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

Thank you

thank you

Thank you! You speak a bit fast, but I followed along and succeeded. Awesome!

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?

Thank u..

Hi! This was very helpful, it did move a little fast but if I put it in a slower speed I was able to follow better. I do have one problem... now that I am using this menu for an actual navigation, I can't have more than one click instance for the options. For example, Option 1 is set to go to the view on click, but I also need it to navigate to a page. Is there a way to bypass this?

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

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

I loved this tutorial, I just want to know something: can this be used in a generic way? so that I create this component once and as I use it I can change the options accordingly? I'm building a form page with a LOT of dropdown menus needed and I was wondering if there's a more effective way of doing this, rather than creating 9 or 10 different components that do the same, just have different text written :(

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?

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

Thank you so much for that great 🤩tutorial im just having an issue with the selected option when I preview it

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!

Thanks so much... This tutorial is really helpful. I made multiple drop-down and framed them together but the drop down options goes on top of other drop-down. Please how can I fix it? Thanks

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?

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?

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) ?

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'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?

The only issue that i have is that when, while testing, i want to choose another option it always sets it to Option 1. I, for example, select option 5, it sets it to option 5, and then i want to change the option, when dropdown menu drops it's again set to Option 1, i tried to fix this but no matter how i connect everything, it either works like the way i explained or doesn't work at all.. I really followed carefully everything u did.. Im sorry, its hard to explain hahah But great tutorial, thank you!

Can you make a tutorial on How to when clicking outside/anywhere the dropdown menu collapse

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

Thank you so much for this. Understand components and variables a lot more because of this, especially for menu drop down design.

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?

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!

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'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!

@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.

First of all, thank you for this amazing tutorial but I have one question I tried to follow this video but when I noticed in the final result when clicking on the option 1 for example it is not selected in the dropdown menu even though I set its state to selected any fix for this issue

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.