Need to wrap long dropdown box list item

[Theseekers]

Hi Tekers...

I am working on a few medical research forms and those choices for a few questions are really long. I have used the drop down box to display them. However, with the lenght of the list item, some gets cut off. Is there away that I can wrap them so that full description can be fitted in the drop down list??

TIA.

 

[jbenson001]

do you mean width wise the text is getting truncated?

 

[Theseekers]

Hi Ben,

Yes,

I tried not to stretch it all the way out because some other list item is not as long. I thought I can increase the height for the drop down box so that it would be taller a little bit; thus can wrap the description to the next line. But for some reason the height setting would not hold. Beside, it does not matter how much I changed in the dropdown box property; the darn dropdown box won't get any higher. Any idea how I might be able to do this folks...

BTW, I am using vs 2003 pro with iis5.

Thanks

 

[ca8msm]

If you are going to be showing large portions of text, maybe consider showing them elsewhere and have a shortened version of the text in the DDL.


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[jbenson001]

ca8msm's suggestion is good. You could use the ItemSelectedChanged event of the ddl to show the "full" text version of the user's choice in a label or a textbox.

 

[Theseekers]

Thank you both,

I'll see if I can implement your suggestions on them,

Thanks again.