[](https://www.webcomponents.org/element/pushkar8723/paper-dropdown) ## <paper-dropdown> `paper-dropdown` is a wrapper for `paper-dropdown-menu` to enable various features like multi-select, search / filter of items, key value pair and 2-way binding on value. **Doc:** https://paper-dropdown.netlify.com/#/elements/paper-dropdown **Demo:** https://paper-dropdown.netlify.com/#/elements/paper-dropdown/demos/demo/index.html Values can be bound using `value` attribute. **Example** ```html Apple Banana Mango Orange Tomato ``` Each item can have a key-value pair where key is what stored in the model but label is what user sees. This can be done using `value` attribute for `paper-item` **Example** ```html Apple Banana Mango Orange Tomato ``` It also has an optional parameter named `searchable`, which when set to true will add a text field at the start of the dropdown which users can use to filter out the items in the dropdown. **Example** ```html Apple Banana Mango Orange Tomato ``` For multi-select, set `mutli` parameter to true. In this case however, paper-item's `value` attribute must be set. **Example** ```html Apple Banana Mango Orange Tomato ``` A very common usecase for dropdown is where items are dynamic. Following example shows how to use paper-dropdown with template repeat. **Example** ```html ``` ### Styling Since `paper-dropdown` is wrapper around `paper-dropdown-menu`, you can use any of the `paper-dropdown-menu`, `paper-input-container` and `paper-menu-button` style mixins and custom properties to style the internal input and menu button respectively.