drop-down list

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drop-down list - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  pull-down list
  drop-down list
  
     <operating system> (Or "drop-down list") A graphical user interface
      component that allows the user to choose one (or
     sometimes more than one) item from a list.  The current choice
     is visible in a small rectangle and when the user clicks on
     it, a list of items is revealed below it.  The user can then
     click on one of these to make it the current choice and the
     list disappears.  In some cases, by holding down a modifier
     key such as Ctrl when clicking, the selection is added to (or
     removed from) the set of current choices rather than replacing
     it.
  
     (1999-09-25)