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Controlling the size of the dropdown window

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shaunk

shaunk

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Aug 20, 2001
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I am using standard Select and Option tags to populate a
dropdown list of players from the database.
I am attempting to increase the size of the dropdown window
containing the players.
At the moment, it populates 10 entries in the list and to get to the 11th , the scroll bar has to be used.
Is there an attribute on the Select tag that can handle this.
Thanks
 
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To clarify that, you CAN modify the amount shown - if you choose to enable multiple selection. Other than that, the answer is no ;o)

Dan


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I think you can use the size attribute.
Code: 
<html><head>
<title> test select </title>
</head>
<body>
<select size = "21">
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
<option>test</option>
</select>
</body
</html>
Is this what you mean?

Glen
 
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Wow - I had absolutely no idea that the size attribute worked for non-multiple select boxes. Nice!

Shame you can't specify the size of the drop-down however :eek:(

Dan


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Glen,

It's good to know size does count after all !

It does control the size of the window that the options appear in , but as Dan has said, it doesn't control the dropdown window size.
I populate the list inside a do while loop which assigns each option a value according to the number of players in the D/B. So there's only one <option>&value</option> set.
Thanks
 
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