ant-design/components/dropdown/index.en-US.md

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category: Components
type: Navigation
title: Dropdown
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A dropdown list.

## When To Use

If there are too many operations to display, you can wrap them in a `Dropdown`. By clicking/hovering on the trigger, a dropdown menu should appear, which allows you to choose one option and execute relevant actions.

## API

### Dropdown

| Property         | Description           | Type     | Default       |
|--------------|----------------|----------|--------------|
| trigger        | the trigger mode which executes the drop-down action  | Array<`click`\|`hover`>   | [`hover`]           |
| overlay | the dropdown menu       | [Menu](/components/menu)   | -           |
| getPopupContainer       | to set the container of the dropdown menu. The default is to create a `div` element in `body`, you can reset it to the scrolling area and make a relative reposition. [example](https://codepen.io/afc163/pen/zEjNOy?editors=0010)   | Function(triggerNode)   | () => document.body |
| visible | whether the dropdown menu is visible | boolean | -           |
| disabled| whether the dropdown menu is disabled| boolean | -           |
| onVisibleChange     | a callback function takes an argument: `visible`, is executed when the visible state is changed | Function(visible) | - |
| placement | placement of pop menu: `bottomLeft` `bottomCenter` `bottomRight` `topLeft` `topCenter` `topRight` | String | `bottomLeft` |

You should use [Menu](/components/menu/) as `overlay`. The menu items and dividers are also available by using `Menu.Item` and `Menu.Divider`.

> Warning: You must set a unique `key` for `Menu.Item`.

> Menu of Dropdown is unselectable by default, you can make it selectable via `<Menu selectable>`.

### Dropdown.Button

| Property         | Description           | Type     | Default       |
|--------------|----------------|----------|--------------|
| type        | type of the button, the same as [Button](/components/button)   | string   | `default`           |
| size        | size of the button, the same as [Button](/components/button)   | string   | `default`           |
| onClick | a callback function, the same as [Button](/components/button), which will be executed when you click the button on the left       | Function   | -           |
| trigger       | the trigger mode which executes the drop-down action | Array<'click'\|`hover`>   | [`hover`] |
| overlay | the dropdown menu | [Menu](/components/menu) | -           |
| visible     | whether the dropdown menu is visible | boolean | -           |
| disabled    | whether the dropdown menu is disabled| boolean | -           |
| onVisibleChange     | a callback function takes an argument: `visible`, is executed when the visible state is changed | Function     | -        |
| placement | placement of pop menu: `bottomLeft` `bottomCenter` `bottomRight` `topLeft` `topCenter` `topRight` | String | `bottomLeft` |