web page drop down list

[daniel kaplan]

hope i hit the write group:

in a web page when you use <select><option>xx</option></select> to make a
drop down box, more than 11 items causes a scroll bar...can this limit be
exceded via the registry or some other way?

thanks ahead!

[Randy Webb]

daniel kaplan wrote:

No. And my browser/desktop setup does not scroll at 11 items.

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[Mark Preston]

daniel kaplan wrote:

No, it can't - or rather it shouldn't - be set in the registry at all.
Browsers and browser options are *intended* to be independent of the
host operating system (yes, I know that Microsoft don't like that game
much) and so such settings should be *within* the browser.

Mine, for example, currently sets scroll after 15 items in the list.

[Sean Berry]

"daniel kaplan" <noe...@please.com> wrote in message
news:10928001...@nntp.acecape.com...

Not via the registry. But, in your code you can have a size for your
select.

Ex.
<select size=20>
<option>1</option>
... options 2 - 19 ...
<option>20</option>
</select>

This will give you a long box of choices... but no scroller.

> thanks ahead!
>
>

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <1307036.O...@PointedEars.de>, dated Tue, 21 Sep
2004 18:44:10, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Thomas 'PointedEars'
Lahn <Point...@web.de> posted :

>daniel kaplan wrote:
>
>> hope i hit the write group:
>

>No, you did not. Please do not crosspost over main hierarchies and
>please set Followup-To one appropriate newsgroup when crossposting.

Lahn is a control freak, and moreover totally misguided.

There is no legitimate objection in Usenet to cross-posting to a
moderate number of groups in different hierarchies, if all are
considered relevant and the individual charters do not disallow it.
There is no requirement in Usenet to follow up to a single group.

However, I believe that comp.lang.java.javascript is not a legitimately-
created Big-8 group, though some poorly-administered servers carry it.

>F'up2 microsoft.public.win2000.registry

So you answer in one group, and follow up to another. Stick to your
house-painting, and refrain from intestinal retrostalsis.

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