Dropdown

Choose details, Popover API or focus-triggered behavior and test its dismissal rules. Dropdown styling does not implement menu arrow-key navigation, and hover must not be the only touch-accessible trigger.

Installation and initialization

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

This is a native CSS plugin, not a React component import. Build Tailwind 4 with the daisyUI plugin and load the generated stylesheet before copying an example. See the included setup guide; do not override an existing project's React or Tailwind versions blindly.

@import "tailwindcss";
@plugin "daisyui" { themes: light --default, dark --prefersdark; }

Source and executable behavior

Source files preserve the original code fences, including original comments and demo strings. The $$ class prefix placeholder must be resolved for your plugin configuration: without a prefix, $$btn becomes btn. Copy every listed source file for the chosen example, combine HTML/CSS/JS appropriately and implement native events. The preview's reviewed event adapters are not a backend or an automatically installed application runtime.

Complete first example

<details class="$$dropdown">
  <summary class="$$btn m-1">open or close</summary>
  <ul class="$$menu $$dropdown-content bg-base-100 $$rounded-box z-1 w-52 p-2 shadow-sm">
    <li><a>Item 1</a></li>
    <li><a>Item 2</a></li>
  </ul>
</details>

All runnable examples

Dropdown using details and summary

dropdown-1

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-1.html

Dropdown using popover API and anchor positioning

dropdown-2

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-3.html
• examples/dropdown/block-4.jsx

Dropdown menu

dropdown-3

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-6.html

Dropdown / aligns to start of button horizontally

dropdown-4

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-7.html

Dropdown / aligns to end of button horizontally

dropdown-5

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-8.html

Dropdown / aligns to center of button horizontally

dropdown-6

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-9.html

Dropdown top

dropdown-7

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-10.html

Dropdown top / aligns to center of button horizontally

dropdown-8

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-11.html

Dropdown top / aligns to end of button horizontally

dropdown-9

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-12.html

Dropdown bottom (default)

dropdown-10

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-13.html

Dropdown bottom (default) / aligns to center of button horizontally

dropdown-11

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-14.html

Dropdown bottom (default) / aligns to end of button horizontally

dropdown-12

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-15.html

Dropdown left

dropdown-13

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-16.html

Dropdown left / aligns to center of button vertically

dropdown-14

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-17.html

Dropdown left / aligns to end of button vertically

dropdown-15

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-18.html

Dropdown right

dropdown-16

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-19.html

Dropdown right / aligns to end of button vertically

dropdown-17

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-20.html

Dropdown right / aligns to center of button vertically

dropdown-18

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-21.html

Dropdown on hover

dropdown-19

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-22.html

Force open

dropdown-20

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-23.html

Force close

dropdown-21

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-24.html

Card as dropdown

dropdown-22

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-25.html

Dropdown in navbar

dropdown-23

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-26.html

Helper dropdown

dropdown-24

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

• examples/dropdown/block-27.html

Theme, accessibility and verification

Use native data-theme boundaries. Verify keyboard operation, labels, visible focus, disabled/invalid states where applicable, light/dark, mobile and reduced motion. Check your target browser's dialog, popover and CSS feature support. CSS classes do not supply unimplemented JavaScript or business services. Clean up timers and third-party instances; copying a command is not installation success.

Source and license

https://github.com/saadeghi/daisyui/tree/c51f50130ffefb293179e6fce8de7ad3f307e45f

JGuang authors these bilingual practical notes; this is not a claim of translating the complete upstream documentation. Original Markdown, code and CSS remain available in the source viewer. Preserve MIT and separate dependency notices. All native-package notices are included conservatively, including build tools; no build binary or remote demo image is redistributed. Replace remote media with assets you are authorized to use. Commercial templates are outside this integration.