I'm afraid that there's nothing you can do about it. Limitation defined by Html, because no horizontal scroll bar will appear so users can read the whole string. You'll either have to split it up into the different parts or abreviate it in some way.
Arron. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm having a hardtime controlling the field-width for a dropdown using >html:select with html:options: > >For example: > <td ID="small" width="100" maxlength="100"> > <html:select property="addressstate" size="1" > disabled="<%= >billingForm.getFormEditFields() %>"> > <html:options collection="states" >property="value" > labelProperty="label"/> > </html:select> > </td> > >My "states" collection contains states like: >Alaska >Arkansas >etc,... > >but there's one that is: >ARMED FORCES CANADA/EUROPE/PACIFIC/AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST/ASIA > >Problem I am having is no matter how I try and limit the "width" of the >dropdown, it wants to be as wide as the largest value in my collection.. >Is there a way to control this so that you get a "horizontal" scrollbar >when you do the dropdown? In my example above, it's ignoring my "td >width="100" and it seems to be taking up about 300 pixels to display the >largest value :-( > >thanks, >Theron > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
