Wrap Text Items in DropDownList

[Michael Landy]

Is there a way to have items in the dropdown automatically word wrap? 

[Peter]

Hello Michael Landy,

Thanks for writing.
 
You should set the AutoSizeItems property to True:

radDropDownList1.AutoSizeItems = True;

 
This property gets or sets a value that indicates whether items will be sized according to their content.

Hope this helps.

Greetings,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Mary]

Hi,

 

How do I wrap text in the dropdown in a gridviewcomboboxcolumn? I'd like to keep the dropdown the same width as the column, but have any long entries wrapped. I've tried this, but is hasn't worked:

 

<p>Private Sub grdComments_CellEditorInitialized(sender As Object, e As GridViewCellEventArgs) Handles grdComments.CellEditorInitialized<br></p><p>            Dim Editor = TryCast(e.ActiveEditor, RadDropDownListEditor)<br><br>            Editor.EditorElement.AutoSize = True<br><br>        End If<br><br>    End Sub</p>

[Mary]

Wow. It would be good if I could edit posts, huh. Here's the code again:

 

Private Sub grdComments_CellEditorInitialized(sender As Object, e As GridViewCellEventArgs) Handles grdComments.CellEditorInitialized

     Dim Editor = TryCast(e.ActiveEditor, RadDropDownListEditor)

     If Not IsNothing(Editor) Then

            Editor.EditorElement.AutoSize = True

     End if
       
    End Sub

[Dimitar]

Hello Mary,

You need to set the AutoSizeItems and TextWrap properties:

Private Sub RadGridView1_CellEditorInitialized(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewCellEventArgs)
    Dim editor = TryCast(e.ActiveEditor, RadDropDownListEditor)
    If editor IsNot Nothing Then
        Dim element = TryCast(editor.EditorElement, RadDropDownListEditorElement)
        element.AutoSizeItems = True
        RemoveHandler element.VisualItemFormatting, AddressOf Element_VisualItemFormatting
        AddHandler element.VisualItemFormatting, AddressOf Element_VisualItemFormatting
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub Element_VisualItemFormatting(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal args As VisualItemFormattingEventArgs)
    args.VisualItem.TextWrap = True
End Sub

Please let me know if there is something else I can help you with. 

 

Regards,
Dimitar
Telerik by Progress

[Mary]

Works perfectly. Thank you!