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Tanit Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Floating menu? Drop-down menu?

Hi,

Please have a look at the blue horizontal menu at the top of any page on this site.
If hou hover your mouse on "Forums" you'll get a sub-menu, and another will crop up when you hover it over "ESL basic and EASY questions". I was wondering whether there's a specific term (not technical jargon) for it.

I know the one in the below picture is a drop-dow menu. Would this expression be fine? How about floating menu? Have you got any other suggestions?

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I guess drop- down menu would be fine [Y]

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I guess drop- down menu would be fine [Y]
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Hi,

I'd call it a drop-down menu.

To me, a floating menu is one that can appear anywhere on the screen.

eg the menu I get right now if I right-click anywhere, and which goes away if I then left-click.

I'd call both these terms technical jargon. It's just that all of us are starting to learn it.
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"Drop-down menu" would be understood perfectly. It's not jargon. You could also say "drop-down list."
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Thank you all.
CliveI'd call both these terms technical jargon.
I feel like a geek, now. Emotion: geeked
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