Posted by rf on 05/04/07 12:35

"Jake G" <jgoodson@dps.state.oh.us> wrote in message
news:1178280342.686969.160510@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the character limit for a
> select box (list box) is? Also, does anyone know how to increase it?
> I am running into an overflow situation. Any help would be much
> appreciated.

32K in some OS/browser combinations. Unlimited in others.

However if you are running in to the limit of the OS/browser then you have
far exceeded the limit of the human trying to use the select box. Thirty or
so rows is my max (those bedamned country select lists). Any more and I
either ignore or lie.

--
Richard.

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