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  1. Oct 9th, 2014, 03:41 PM #1
    Cristian
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    Smile @html.dropdownlist with 1000 elements

    I have a select in my view that have around 1000 elements
    I use the sentence:

    <body>
    ...
    <td>@html.dropdownlist("MyList")</td>
    </body>

    My question is:
    how can i to optimize this task because take too long in show the view in the browser ?

    Any ideas will be thanks
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  2. Oct 9th, 2014, 07:14 PM #2
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    Re: @html.dropdownlist with 1000 elements

    Showing a drop-down with that many options is a bad idea regardless. Whenever we have that many options, we use a suggestion box, i.e. a jQuery plug-in that works basically the same way as the auto-complete functionality in a WinForms TextBox. The user starts typing and you use AJAX to populate a drop-down with a small number of matching items.
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