# How does the dropdown work?

**URL:** https://community.weweb.io/t/how-does-the-dropdown-work/18276
**Category:** Ask us anything
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/how-does-the-dropdown-work/18276 "2025-05-15T03:49:00Z")
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### Author: ![Gaby\_Padilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@Gaby\_Padilla](https://community.weweb.io/u/Gaby_Padilla)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/how-does-the-dropdown-work/18276/1 "2025-05-15T03:49:00Z")

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I cannot configure the dropdown properly, this is different than the video in the Academy and also the documentation is not complete.

What I want is:

- To be able to have a dynamic dropdown, I don’t want to show the options all the time, only when the user clicks on it.
- To change the options of the dropdown
- To have it as a variable, so I can send the information to Xano, when I go to the workflow I see the other fields but not the dropdown.

I think this is really easy but for my inexperience, I’m finding it complicated, this is a video of what I’ve done:

https://www.loom.com/embed/464e564938034fe7a6bc83d69eb1a032?sid=9588125c-fdb8-4e9b-bd1d-e5b4e2651325

Thanks for helping

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### Author: ![Agustin\_Carozo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/agustin_carozo/32/13231_2.png) [@Agustin\_Carozo](https://community.weweb.io/u/Agustin_Carozo)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/how-does-the-dropdown-work/18276/2 "2025-05-15T13:18:23Z")

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Hi Gaby.

the dropdown element creates a button that “shows” and “hides” the choices section.  
I think you ended up deleting this button without realizing.

I recommend instead that you use the “Select” element that has a toggable list inside of itself.

I’m attaching an image so you can see what I mean, Red is the dropdown and blue is the select element

 ![Screenshot 2025-05-15 at 10.13.43](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/9/91913b5dbd0b993398290c29022e107e61e28e55.png)

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### Author: ![Gaby\_Padilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@Gaby\_Padilla](https://community.weweb.io/u/Gaby_Padilla)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/how-does-the-dropdown-work/18276/3 "2025-05-16T03:35:34Z")

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Hi Agustin,

Thanks, I think when I was changing the style of the button I must have erased or changed something.

I tried with the select option you mentioned, and that was exactly what I needed.

Thanks again