Dropdown is one of the most classic UI elements in web design.
Its history can be traced back to the last century and has been popular today.
Even in today’s mobile-first web development, dropdown is still an indispensable UI element.
In today’s post, you will find the 10 best Dropdown components to help you create user-friendly and mobile-compatible dropdown lists or dropdown menus on modern React and React Native applications. Have fun.
Originally Published July 14 2020, updated May 09 2022
Table Of Contents:
Best React Dropdown Components:
1. downshift
A collection of primitive components that you can compose together to create a simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant React autocomplete/dropdown/select/combobox component which you can reuse in your application.
2. Simple Dropdown Component For React
Simple Dropdown component for React that helps you style the default HTML select element with support for grouped options.
3. react-select-search
Lightweight select component for React.
4. Dropdown Tree Select Component For React
A lightweight and fast control to render a select component that can display hierarchical tree data. In addition, the control shows the selection in pills and allows user to search the options for quick filtering and selection.
5. react-multi-select-component
Simple and lightweight multiple selection dropdown component with checkboxes, search and select-all.
Best React Native Dropdown Components:
1. React Native Picker Select Component
A Picker component for React Native which emulates the native <select> interfaces for iOS and Android.
2. React Native Modal Dropdown
A react-native dropdown/picker/selector component for both Android & iOS.
3. Material Dropdown For React Native
React Native Material dropdown with consistent behavior on iOS and Android.
4. React Native Dropdown Component
A simple DropDown menu for React Native App!
5. React Native Dropdown Picker
A single / multiple, categorizable, customizable, localizable and searchable item picker (drop-down) component for react native which supports both Android & iOS.
More Resources:
There’re lots of web & mobile dropdown libraries out there and you can find more React & React Native resources about dropdown on our Dropdown category.