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Dcc.dropdown change height

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#1

Dear all,

I have tried reducing the height on a dcc.dropdown. While this seems to change the height of the container, the dropdown element stays the same height and simply overlaps the container.

Is there a way to set or get the height of a dcc.dropdown element?

I would ultimately like to place a text container of the same height next to the dropdown menu.

Can't change the height of dropdowns
#2

Not sure what you tried, but you can change the dropdown’s style attribute with a dictionary containing the desired CSS that you want.

For example:

dcc.Dropdown(id='id', style={'height': '30px', 'width': '100px'})

You can find more CSS attributes here.

Hope this makes helps.

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#3

Thanks for your reply! Extending the size of the dropdown actually works as you mentioned. experimented a bit more and it seems that I cannot reduce the height below ~35px. I also tried setting min-height to 0px which doesn’t have an effect.

The dropdown style looks like this

style={
    'height': '2px', 
    'width': '100px', 
    'font-size': "50%",
    'min-height': '1px',
    },
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#4

I think you should watch out for the combinations of CSS attributes that you are using. Some might cancel others, and sometimes their interactions produce different results. I think it’s best to try them in isolation and see what works.

I just tried to reduce height to 5px and it seems to work:

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The space after ‘stopwords’ is actually a dropdown, and has a height of 5px. The space after “Separator” is a and “Input” field with default height.

The dropdown actually works and displays the options when clicked, but it’s obviously a terrible user experience:

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Hope this works for you.

#5

Hm I don’t see what’s going on. When I run the below code, the dropdown is not resizing. There is assets directory. So I do not see any further CSS being injected.

dash 0.35.0
dash_core_componenrts 0.41.0

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import dash
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_html_components as html

print(dash.__version__)
print(dcc.__version__)

app = dash.Dash()
app.layout = dcc.Dropdown(id='id', style={'height': '5px'})

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(host='0.0.0.0', port='8050', debug=True)
#6

Strange, I also got the same issue, but I was able to find a solution.

I put the dropdown inside an html.Div, and added display':'inline-block' to the style dictionary, and it worked.

Sorry I’m not a CSS expert:)

#7

Applying ‘disply’: ‘inline-block’ directly to the dropdown style has an effect for me. The wrapper does not change anything. I am a bit concerned about the side-effects of setting inline-block on the dropdown and would love to understand what is going on. But anyway, thanks for the workaround!

app.layout = dcc.Dropdown(id='id', 
                style={
                        'height': '5px',
                        'display': 'inline-block',
                    }
)
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#8

@eliasdabbas, I’m also having a simmilar issue. I followed your instructions, but when I change the “height” style property, my dropdowns don’t change size and they end up overlapping. Do you know what is going on in my case?

My community post: Can't change the height of dropdowns

#9

It seems you just need to put the “display: inline” in the right place.
I shared the solution to your post.
Thanks

#10

Yes, I just saw your post. It works now. Much appreciated.