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Effective Pull-Down Menus

Pull-down menus can be used effectively when you have a long list of well-known items.

For example, many registration and order forms use alphabetical lists of countries, states, cities, etc.

The advantages of pull-down menus of well-known items:

They can save a lot of space
They can be easy-to-use and effortless for the user to make a selection
Reduces user effort by eliminating the need for the user to spell the form entry correctly
Reduces the possibility of misspelt form entries to zero
On sites where security is a concern, pull-down boxes are harder than keypresses for hackers to monitor