RadComboBox auto-width

[Tyson Nero]

Is auto-width supported for the RadComboBox? Is there a way to make it grow horizontally to the largest item in the select list?

[Shinu]

Hello,


If you want to resize the dropdown based on the item text length, then the following code library will help you
Dynamic Dropdown width


-Shinu.

[Chris McGrath]

Are there plans to make this a built-in feature?  Since the standard DropDownList control automatically sizes itself to the data in the dropdown, it makes sense that many people might want to mimic this behavior without creating code for every single combobox on a form.

I would expect two properties:  One that autosizes the dropdown width, and one that autosizes the combo itself.

I very much like some of the features of the telerik drop down, but hate that it takes so much work to make it work the way standard dropdowns do.

PS. This code seems to far overcompensate for the text width when using Arial as the font (in both the control's skin and the TextWidth function).

[Helen]

Hello Chris,

We've logged this feature. Our developers will consider implementing it in the future.

Kind regards,
Helen
the Telerik team

[Steve]

DropdownWidth works

[Mike]

I second the request for an auto-width property.  I really dislike the look of word-wrapped combo box entries.  Like probably most developers, the contents of my combo boxes come from data in a database and I can't specify one width at design time that is going to look good in all cases.  And copying that c# code all over the application to calculate the width in the DataBound event is a huge hassle.

[Simon]

Hi Mike,

We already have the 'drop down auto width' feature in our backlog and will implement it in future releases (an exact time frame is unavailable at the moment).

Greetings,
Simon
the Telerik team

[Patrice Boissonneault]

+1 vote for this feature.

[Gint]

+1

[Dwight]

Would be very useful for me too + 1

[Tom Bruinsma]

+1, we went back to html selects because of this behavior.

[Alex Krusz]

rcbSlide will by default be as narrow as the dropdown selector's text; it does not expand horizontally to fit its content, so a horizontal scrollbar will be created if the dropdown item text is wide enough. This is fixable by manually setting rcbSlide's(minimum) size to be larger than its contents. This allows the content (rcbList,rcbScroll, rcbItem) to intelligently resize horizonally up to the width of rcbSlide.

Here is my CSS fix for the problem.

/* Allows radComboBox dropdowns to expand horizontally
   rather than use a scrollbar */

.rcbSlide {

    width: 500px;

}

 

.rcbScroll .rcbWidth {

    min-width: 150px;

    width: auto;

}

 

.RadComboBoxDropDown {

    width: auto !important;

}

 

.rcbList {

    position: relative;

    width: auto;

}

[JDP]

I vote for this as well. Spent 15 minutes of my time looking for what I thought would be a standard.

[App Visible]

Dear Alex,
The solution work perfect in Firefox but doesn't work on IE.You have any fix for this.Thanks.

[improwise]

Any news on this? Really want this feature as well

+1

[Mike]

I'm still really wanting and needing this feature.  This issue came up today in a demo.

[Dwight]

I agree, it is definitely a big drawback of an otherwise excellent control

[chrisL]

+1

[LM]

+1

This is a big minus, in some situations it's unusable without having the width dynamic.

[CCC]

+1
This would be very useful. Please make this feature ready asap...

[brian]

telerik?

[Kate]

Hi,

We have already logged the request for the auto-width feature for the RadComboBox control and we will be working on this feature during the current Q1 2013. Thank you all for the feedback and for voting for it. 

All the best,
Kate
the Telerik team

[Karrie]

Good to hear. 

+1 for our team as well.

[Kate]

Hello Karrie,

Please refer to this demo and help article where you can find an example and more detailed information regarding the new functionality of the RadComboBox control that we recently implemented.

Kind regards,
Kate
the Telerik team

[Aaron Abdis]

another +1 for autowidth feature of the control itself (not the dropdown portion, i know that's already there)

[Somnath Kharat]

I am also facing this problem .I used the Autowidth concept but its not working for me.

I tried using this property 'DropDownAutoWidth="Enabled"

 

[Kate]

Hello,

@Aaron: I will forward you request to our development team so that they can review it and possibly include it with the improvements of the control.

@Somnath: Can you please open a separate forum post or a support ticket where you can provide more information on the specific scenario that you have as well as provide the version of the RadControls that you use? Thus, we can inspect the code that you have from our side and assist you in the most efficient way. 

Regards,
Kate
Telerik