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Good article but I don't agree with ”When you have more than 15 options in a menu, you should either lessen the amount of options, or use a text field to allow
by lominming 14y ago
Good article but I don't agree with ”When you have more than 15 options in a menu, you should either lessen the amount of options, or use a text field to allow users to enter their own data."
Almost all forms use a select menu for user to choose country, especially when you are entering an address. The reason is data integrity and it I think it is ready for the user to choose from select menu than to type.
I also think it is perfectly fine for user to choose the dates from a dropdown (think credit card form). Typing can be more troublesome.
- dylan-m 14y agoWhen I bump into a country selector, I always type the first bit of my country's name so the cursor will jump to it. I doubt I'm the only one. In effect, for me, it _is_ a text field. Just a really bad one that doesn't always work how I expect, makes a lot of noise and has poor visual feedback. For other users it is a gigantic list that is hard to deal with on a smaller screen. (There's some room for bias here, by the way: lots of web developers live in those countries that get listed first - for reasons which speak directly to why this whole thing is a terrible idea - and lots of web developers have big screens that cope reasonably well with colossally tall menus).