Add horizontal Scroll bar to a Server Control Listbox or DropDownL

[Vidds]

Hi Everyone,

How come Server listbox control does not have a Horizontal Scroll Property?
If any one has an idea how we add a Horizontal scroll to a listbox or
dropdown list box it would be quite helpful.Thanks in advance

Regards
Vidds

[Craig Deelsnyder]

Vidds wrote:

Hi Everyone,

How come Server listbox control does not have a Horizontal Scroll Property?
If any one has an idea how we add a Horizontal scroll to a listbox or
dropdown list box it would be quite helpful.Thanks in advance

Regards
Vidds

It's more than likely because the HTML SELECT control does not have that
capability (which is what ListBox renders to).

If you really, really need it, one idea would be to create a custom
ListBox class whose HTML looks like this: sets the width of the SELECT
to that of your widest value's width (the max width of the scrollbar,
for example). Now wrap that SELECT inside of a DIV of the 'constrained'
size and let it scroll on overflow.

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craig
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET

[Vidds]

Thanks for the reply Craig .But if you can elaborate more on the solution it
would be great.

Regards
Vidds

"Craig Deelsnyder" wrote:

Vidds wrote:

Hi Everyone,

How come Server listbox control does not have a Horizontal Scroll Property?
If any one has an idea how we add a Horizontal scroll to a listbox or
dropdown list box it would be quite helpful.Thanks in advance

Regards
Vidds

It's more than likely because the HTML SELECT control does not have that
capability (which is what ListBox renders to).

If you really, really need it, one idea would be to create a custom
ListBox class whose HTML looks like this: sets the width of the SELECT
to that of your widest value's width (the max width of the scrollbar,
for example). Now wrap that SELECT inside of a DIV of the 'constrained'
size and let it scroll on overflow.

--
craig
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET

[Craig Deelsnyder]

Vidds wrote:

Thanks for the reply Craig .But if you can elaborate more on the solution it
would be great.

Regards
Vidds

Here's a quick example starting down those lines, here's the type of
HTML you want spit out by a control:

<div style="width:20 0px; height:100px; overflow:auto;" >
<SELECT size="4">
<OPTION
Value="1">blahb lahblahblahblah blahblahblahbla hblahblahblah</OPTION>
<OPTION Value="2">2</OPTION>
<OPTION Value="3">3</OPTION>
<OPTION Value="4">4</OPTION>
</SELECT>
</div>

so in essence I'd recommend creating a composite custom control for
this, which renders this HTML. They're pretty easy to make, Google on
the terms 'composite control asp.net'.

The toughest part will be matching up the div dimensions to that of the
select box, to make the scrollbars work/line up properly. That's why
it's kinda tricky.

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craig
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET