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  1. Feb 2nd, 2001, 10:04 AM #1
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    Does anyone know if its possible to set the width of a dropdown menu on an ASP page.
    Thanks in advance for any help provided.

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    Dont think there is. Its always as wide as your longest item.
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  3. Feb 2nd, 2001, 11:42 AM #3
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    There is a way - I found it by accident.

    I tried everything, and I couldn't find a way to set the width of a drop down box; I tried setting the width of the form, the width of the <select> tag, the width of the <option> tags. Nothing. Then I just-for-the-hell-of-it thought try CSS. So I created a one-line CSS file;

    select {width : 450 }

    and saved it as build.css (the name was relevant to the project I was doing)

    then added the following line in the <HEAD> section of the file with the drop down boxes that needed formatting;

    <LINK REL="StyleSheet" TYPE="text/css" REF="build.css">

    And voila, it worked ! Now, I don't know if all browsers will format this properly, especially Netscape, but I know it works in IE 5+.

    If you want to see a working example and download some very basic code done in about a minute goto
    http://www.nickclarkson.co.uk/dropdown.html
    In the example I created a subclass called alternative to demonstrate how easy it is to change the width. If you need any more information on CSS try http://www.w3schools.com/css - it's a really good site.

    (Oh and the site is new, so there's not a lot there

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  4. Feb 2nd, 2001, 04:59 PM #4
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    Cool I got it

    Hi now i got the answer!
    use the style sheet in the select tag like this:


    <select style="width: 344px">
    </select>


    The width is 344 pixels. You can make it as wider as you can.

    This one should work!!!!!!
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  6. Feb 2nd, 2001, 07:28 PM #5
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    You mean a bit like I said in my post about 12 hours ago ?
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  7. Feb 2nd, 2001, 07:44 PM #6
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    Wink Sorry!

    Sorry guy!
    Actually I did not look at your code. I already knew that becasue I used Ms Script program.
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  8. Feb 5th, 2001, 04:25 AM #7
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    Thanks everyone that sorted it
    Thanks in advance for any help provided.

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