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Michele Brooks
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Does anyone know the maximum number of selections that can be displayed in a list box? Thanks.

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I don't know of a limit. But for practical purposes if you are populating a list box with many choices you might want to look into making it an auto-complete list box.

See here: jQuery Autocomplete


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Michele Brooks
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Squatch, great suggestion but don't know if this will work with a year/month list of dates. The html page originally used the calendar feature but now we want the users to select a start year/month and an ending year/month, eliminating the yymd option using the calendar.


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So how many year/month selections will be in a list box? Unless you are going far back in time I don't think you need to worry about maxing out the list box.


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Wep5622
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A trick I use sometimes is to have a month dropdown list chained from a year dropdown list.

The month list contains values for all months in the year (201501, 201502, ..., 201512), but displays the months ("January", "February", ..., "December").

That way, you get both a limited list of years and a list with never more than 12 months.

You can even tack a 01 and a 31 to those values respectively if you intend to use them as start and en date ranges respectively. Or use a different date representation format if that better suits your requirements, of course Wink


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Michele Brooks
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Thanks to both of you for responding to my request. The project lead suggested to display the latest year first and the list box will go back to 2013. As you stated Squatch, I shouldn't have to worry about maxing out the list box.

Wep5622, thanks for the cool suggestion on how to pull the dates in a different way. I will certainly consider this suggestion if the need arises.

Thanks again to all.


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