Should I have a single table to source the drop-down values or create multiple tables for each drop down

Question

I have multiple drop down box (around 23) on a single web page, these drop downs get their values from SQL database. Should I have a single table to source the drop-down values or create multiple tables for each drop down.

Should I create a table with field id for each drop down and all permitted values for the field or create 22 tables with 2 to 5 values in each table.

eg Gender: has 2 values male/female would it make sense to have table for gender?

Answer 1

In my project, we have single table used to store such options on GUI. There, we have stored such information related to all screens. Columns of table is something like below :

Optiontype - possible values like gender
Optiontype_Code - possible values like M, F
Code _Description -  possible values Male, Female 

You can add more columns to table as per your requirement for fast retrieval of data like screen id or something.