One of the guys I work with needs a custom control that would work like a multiline ddl since such a thing does not exist as far as we have been able to discover
does anyone have any ideas or have created such a thing before
we have a couple ideas but they involve to much database usage
We prefer that it be FREE!!!
Have a look at EasyListBox. I used on a project and while a bit quirky at first, got the job done.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by multi-line, but if it is selecting multiple elements in a drop down list, see this demo.
If its showing elements that wrap mulitple lines in a drop down, see this demo. You can put a break in the HTML to achieve what you might be looking for. I've used this control in this manner before, so I can confirm it works.
Good luck.
You should indicate in the original post that you are specifically looking for something FREE.
On a side note, the control is not licensed per page it is used on, but per website I believe.
We use a custom modified version of suckerfish at work. DB performance isn't an issue for us because we cache the control.
The control renders out nested UL/LIs either for all nodes in the web.sitemap or for a certain set of pages pulled from the DB. We then use jQuery to do all the cool javascript stuff. Because it uses such basic HTML, it's pretty easy to have multi-line or wrapped long items once you style it with CSS.
We ended up using the drop down list extender provided in the AJAX Control Toolkit It worked pretty well for our needs and the only problem that we had with it is that its does not always display the drop down list but only on hover. We found a fix for this but it did not seem to always work so we did our own little css fix
Thanks for all your help