Besides the options themselves , that should be ?same? and have same order

besides the above, UI good practice directives,
suggest to use radio buttons for up to 4-5 choices, (unless texts are too long),
right ?

I am happy with both of the displays I just want us to chose one single
style

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Besides the options themselves , that should be ?same? and have same order

besides the above, UI good practice directives,
suggest to use radio buttons for up to 4-5 choices, (unless texts are too
long),
right ?

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besides the above, UI good practice directives, suggest to use radio buttons for up to 4-5 choices, (unless texts are too long),

to be honest, i very much dislike unneeded drop-downs having only 3-4 options

Disadvantages

• More difficult to read all of them at once or to search for a string !!
• if you want to find available options of any of them you need to 2 clicks, 1 to open and read, 2nd click to close, radio needs zero clicks
• if you want to change you need 2 clicks, radio needs 1 click

I totally agree with George on this one, this a common practice and there is a trent to abandon dropdowns lately. I would guess the UX/UI team could accomplish this easy task...

It's an easy task and I'm happy to do it. I guess my original question was
to see if there was a reason I couldn't see for these two views to be
different

suggest to use radio buttons for up to 4-5 choices, (unless texts are too long)=phrases,

For phrases the radio-set must be have a vertical placement without the btn-group !!

• otherwise it is best to remain a select drop down !!

i did not suggest to convert drop-down selects that contain 3-5 phrases into a horizontal radio-set !
it will be quite difficult to read !

[EDIT]

• also a case like "above" , "below" can not be made a radio-set without a new CSS styling, now if you make radio and add: btn-group

because it will be "red / green" which is meaningless

@ggppdk yes context is essential but I am just pointing:

part of this great article: https://uxdesign.cc/design-better-forms-96fadca0f49c#.hgv8q1eoa

Also it is very hard to ditch selects especially in cases like:

Yes, i was going to link that article

and i am revising my data forms and configuration forms lately,
and that is why also posted here too

I am going to have a play at this over the next few days. Some of the issues without selects (i agree they are bad) is the mobile view. Also I wonder if we need to use red/green at all - why not just use a single colour to indicate the selected option

Closed as we have a PR see #11968