Need help with AutoSteching a drop-down box

[TonyU]

[tt]Hello all,
I need help,
I'm building a drop-down box being populated from a database, the problem is that some field names are over 60 bytes long

Q.
How can I set the drop-down to autostrech so to speak?
I know

<style=&quot;width:170;&quot;> will set it to what I specify but I need it to autostrech.

Thanks in advance...

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[EdwardMartinIII]

Tony,

I believe the width of a drop-down will stretch to fit the longest element in it, unless you tell it otherwise.

thread215-514855 covers dynamically changing the width of a drop-down box. You might find it useful to -- if you just don't know how big your entries will be -- give the drop-down a small footprint unless activated and then make it obscenely huge.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,


Edward

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[TonyU]

[tt]Thanks for your response Edward, but I'm trying to set width of the drop-down based on the width of the dynamic text

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[EdwardMartinIII]

It's easy: don't specify a width. The drop-down will stretch to accomodate the elements when the page is built.

Alternately, you can precalculate the width of your drop-down by doing a runthrough of the menu entries before the server app ever builds the page. Save that piece of info as the drop down width, then use it when your app composes and sends the page to the client.

Cheers,


Edward

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