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The Dropdown component

Now that we've broken down the Template, we can look at the properties of the Dropdown component.

The parent Dropdown object has a Dropdown (TMP_Dropdown for TextMeshPro - Dropdown) component. It has all the properties common to the other interactable UI objects, along with a few that are exclusive to Dropdowns:

As you can see from the preceding image, the properties on the UI Dropdown and TextMeshPro - Dropdown are nearly identical. The only difference is the Text objects in are standard UI Text objects in the UI Dropdown and are TextMeshPro - Text objects in the TextMeshPro - Dropdown.

The Dropdown component is actually ...

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