SelectItem auto width

[pedjak]

Is it possible to force a SelectItem to take the width of the widest/longest item displayed?

[SchlauKunde]

I couldn't change the width of the item display, either; for longer item names I already encountered display problems; so a way to change the width to accomodate long item names would be fine; autofit would be fine, too ...

[SchlauKunde]

Further observations:
- It does NOT seem possible to change the width of the SelectItem Display Field in unexpanded mode
- Generally speaking the following holds:
- All items are displayed correctly when the SelectItem List is expanded !
- BUT: There's a showstopper bug in FireFox (3.6.18) in the following use case:
- The SelectItem List contains only one item
- The value of this item exceeds the length of the unexpanded display
- A Scroll Bar is shown and one cannot see/choose the item

[Isomorphic]

You have external CSS creating the scrollbar problem, see FAQ.

[jmichelgarcia]

Carefull on not using none of GWT themes.

With only the default SmartGWT theme (include in the SmartGWT module) I don't have any problem with select items containing just one value (on FF 4).

[SchlauKunde]

I am using SmartClient EE, not SmartGWT; but I guess the skinning issues are the same ...

My newest insight:
- With the 'Simplicity' skin, the problem does NOT occur :-) !
- Nice it would be if we SmartClient (EE)/SmartGWT users were shielded from cross-browser, cross-skin issues !
- In my small test case I am NOT using any home-grown CSS (rules) ...

[Isomorphic]

Yes, you do have external CSS. Use Firebug to prove it to yourself. This symptom is 100% conclusive.

[SchlauKunde]

My conclusion:
- I should have a pure SmartClient JSP testbed without ColdFusion in exactly the same Tomcat env
- So I have created such a testbed env

BUT:
- The symptom occurs in this testbed env, too
- Using SmartClient in conjunction with FireBug is no good idea at all:
- A plethora of info messages is put out ...
- It runs really, really slow !
- Of course there is a lot of CSS ! But it is neither created by me nor by ColdFusion; it seems to be created solely by SmartClient ... Or where else could it come from ?