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   KnowHow: Forms --- Study Subject

Forms
Many studies are with and about students. In these cases you might wann to know to their study subject.

 

 

Study subjects as drop-down menu

With drop-down menus one can save a lot of space and kinda pretend to have a short survey. However, one should still be careful applying drop-down menus and consider that a user needs more time to choose the appropriate answer in a drop-down menu than in choosing the right radio button or a check box. In some cases drop-down menus are, on the other hand, the only choice, especially when the list of possible answers to choose from is rather long. From cognitive psychology we know that the human being is able to comprehend up to six elements at the same time, hence drop-down menus should only be used with more than 7 possible answers.

This is what it could look like:

 

Study subjects as drop-down menu -  (in ENGLISH) 

What is your study subject?

    HTML-Source

  

 

 

Study subjects as drop-down menu - short list (in GERMAN) 

Was ist Ihr Studienfach?

    HTML-Source

  

 
Study subjects as drop-down menu - long list (in GERMAN)

    HTML-Source

 

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