Materialize - Dropdowns

Materialize provides dropdown CSS class to make a ul element as a dropdown and add the id of the ul element to the data-activates attribute of the button or anchor element. The following table mentions the available classes and their effects.

Sr.No.	Class Name & Description
1	dropdown-content Identifies ul as a materialize dropdown component. Required for ul element.
2	data-activates id of the dropdown ul element.

Sr.No.

Class Name & Description

dropdown-content

Identifies ul as a materialize dropdown component. Required for ul element.

data-activates

id of the dropdown ul element.

Following is an example of using a dropdown.

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>The Materialize Dropdowns Example</title>
         <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.97.3/css/materialize.min.css">
         <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>
         <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.97.3/js/materialize.min.js"></script>
   </head>
   <body class="container">
      <h3>Drop Down Demo</h3>
      <ul id="dropdown" class="dropdown-content">
         <li><a href="#">Inbox<span class="badge">12</span></a></li>
         <li><a href="#!">Unread<span class="new badge">4</span></a></li>
         <li><a href="#">Sent</a></li>
         <li class="divider"></li> 
         <li><a href="#">Outbox<span class="badge">14</span></a></li>
      </ul>
      <a class="btn dropdown-button" href="#" data-activates="dropdown">Mail Box<i class="mdi-navigation-arrow-drop-down right"></i></a>
   </body>
</html>

Output

Verify the output.