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You can use a split button to open anything you'd like.

But the way you do it is by supplying an href attribute to the page you'd like to open.

You've surrounded a select menu with an <a> tag. I'd imagine it would make a mess. It's no different than surrounding some text or an image with the <a> tag. The menu will be displayed as the clickable content of the <a> tag.

You probably want to use a dialog or a popup.

Hi,

How do I add a split button without using the "a href" markup?

You can't. The second href is what the listview widget uses to determine that it will create a split button.

Well, OK, you can, but it is a hassle. You could duplicate the HTML that the listview would normally create for the split-button. That might work.

If the way the listview works isn't what you want, I suggest you create your own list, and leave the listview behind You will get much better performance, to boot.

I don't want to use href because I don't want to open a new page or to show a popup. Just a simple select menu like this would do:

The select menu has to get there somehow.

How were you planning on making it appear?

If you just wanted the menu to always appear (in place of the split-button icon) then that's not a split-button. You could just include that as part of the listview item styling.

But good luck fighting with the listview CSS! Make your own list.