how do you specifiy how many items are shown (height) in a listbox

Question

I have this and it shows all of the items in the listbox but there are alot of them

    <label for=”Application”>Application:</label>
    <%= Html.ListBox("SelectedCategories", Model.Applications)%>

is there a way to show just show 5 items and add a scrollbar (compared to increasing the height of the listbox)

Answer 1

Checkout this blog post.

Answer 2

You could set the "size" attribute on the select element to 5. Like this:

<%= Html.ListBox("SelectedCategories", Model.Applications, new {size=5})%>