Limit the number of items displayed in a ASP.Net drop down list

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I want to limit the number of items displayed in my dropdownlist. I have a drop downlist with around 50 values and want to display first ten items in the drop downlist after clicking the scroll only it will shows the remaining items.

Thanks in Advance....

Posted 6-Nov-11 23:49pm

smraj1503

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Venkatesh Mookkan · Answer 1 · 2011-11-07T00:04:00

Solution 1

There is no direct property to do that. But you can do it by setting attributes like below,

C#

DropDownList1.Attributes.Add("Size", "10");

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Posted 7-Nov-11 0:04am

Venkatesh Mookkan

Tejas Vaishnav · Answer 2 · 2011-11-07T00:07:00

Solution 2

Please Read this articals...

it will use full for you....

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rakkimk/archive/2011/05/02/dropdownlist-html-select-vertical-scrollbar-number-of-items.aspx[^]

http://forums.asp.net/t/1226413.aspx[^]

Posted 7-Nov-11 0:07am

Tejas Vaishnav

sravani.v · Answer 3 · 2011-11-07T01:27:00

Solution 3

See this:

Limit the no.of items in dropdown list[^]

http://forums.devshed.com/net-development-87/how-to-limit-the-number-of-items-to-display-in-307319.html[^]

Posted 7-Nov-11 1:27am

sravani.v

Updated 7-Nov-11 1:33am

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