How To Create Dropdown Labels For Blogger

Blogger provide default Labels widget which can either be set into cloud style or list style. But if you have written a large number of posts then the Labels will become a great problem for your by occupying a large space of your Blog's sidebar. To save your Blog from this situation you ca install a Dropdown Style Labels Widget which occupies very small space of your Blog and also improves the loading time of your Blog. Let's see now

Note: Before applying this trick you must have pre-installed Labels Widget in your Blog.

How To Apply 

■ Open your Blog Dashboard
■ Open Template → Html Editor

Now Find (Pressing Ctrl+F)

  <b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'/>

Now add below given code replacing it.

Widget Code

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Categories' type='Label'> <b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'> 
<h2><data:title/></h2> 
</b:if> 
<div class='widget-content'> 
<select style='width:100%' onchange='location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;'> 
<option>Click To Choose a Category</option> 
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'> 
<option expr:value='data:label.url'>
<data:label.name/> (<data:label.count/>) </option> 
</b:loop> 
</select> 
<b:include name='quickedit'/> 
</div> 
</b:includable> 
</b:widget>

■ You can Change the name ' Click To Choose category '
■ Remove the code ' (<data:label.count/>) ' , if you don't want to show number of posts in  labels.

Now hit the Save button and you are done.