drop down list: size

[Ian Oldbury]

Hi all,

i'm trying to define the number of items that are shown at a time on a
dropdownlist. Ideally i'd like to do this within the css class if possible.
How is this done??

This the control....
<asp:dropdownlist id="ddlRange"
runat="server"
autopostback="true"
cssclass="DropDownBox"
enableviewstate="True" >
</asp:dropdownlist>

[Tampa .NET Koder]

you populate the drop down list with the data that you want. What ever you
put in, you get out. To limit your list, don't insert the data. The drop
down list is not like a datagrid where you can do paging.

"Ian Oldbury" wrote:

Hi all,

i'm trying to define the number of items that are shown at a time on a
dropdownlist. Ideally i'd like to do this within the css class if possible.
How is this done??

This the control....
<asp:dropdownlist id="ddlRange"
runat="server"
autopostback="true"
cssclass="DropDownBox"
enableviewstate="True" >
</asp:dropdownlist>

[Ian Oldbury]

ah that confuses me a little, as my understanding was that the dropdownlist
is the asp.net version of HTML form control. Which when setting the size
property would limit the number that could be seen at a time without using
the scrollbars.
"Tampa .NET Koder" <Ta***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:13**********************************@microsof t.com...

you populate the drop down list with the data that you want. What ever you
put in, you get out. To limit your list, don't insert the data. The drop
down list is not like a datagrid where you can do paging.

"Ian Oldbury" wrote:

Hi all,

i'm trying to define the number of items that are shown at a time on a
dropdownlist. Ideally i'd like to do this within the css class if
possible.
How is this done??

This the control....
<asp:dropdownlist id="ddlRange"
runat="server"
autopostback="true"
cssclass="DropDownBox"
enableviewstate="True" >
</asp:dropdownlist>

[Tampa .NET Koder]

Well there are dropdownlist and the Listbox..you may be confusing the two.
see here for a good explanation of the web server controls avaliable
http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspn...ebcontrols.asp

"Ian Oldbury" wrote:

ah that confuses me a little, as my understanding was that the dropdownlist
is the asp.net version of HTML form control. Which when setting the size
property would limit the number that could be seen at a time without using
the scrollbars.
"Tampa .NET Koder" <Ta***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:13**********************************@microsof t.com...

you populate the drop down list with the data that you want. What ever you
put in, you get out. To limit your list, don't insert the data. The drop
down list is not like a datagrid where you can do paging.

"Ian Oldbury" wrote:

Hi all,

i'm trying to define the number of items that are shown at a time on a
dropdownlist. Ideally i'd like to do this within the css class if
possible.
How is this done??

This the control....
<asp:dropdownlist id="ddlRange"
runat="server"
autopostback="true"
cssclass="DropDownBox"
enableviewstate="True" >
</asp:dropdownlist>

[William F. Robertson, Jr.]

Are you wanting to know how large to make the DropDownList? All the items
would be there, but you want to control how many are "visible" at a time?

bill

"Ian Oldbury" <ian_oldbury@_NO_msn_SPAM_.com> wrote in message
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Hi all,

i'm trying to define the number of items that are shown at a time on a
dropdownlist. Ideally i'd like to do this within the css class if possible. How is this done??

This the control....
<asp:dropdownlist id="ddlRange"
runat="server"
autopostback="true"
cssclass="DropDownBox"
enableviewstate="True" >
</asp:dropdownlist>