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Is it possible to have a select with 2 lines?

Hello guys

My select is a long text and I'd like to break it into two lines.
Is it possible ?

thanks
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I think that you will have to create your own component for that.
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Do you mean that the actual SQL text of the select statement is very long? If so, simply put carriage returns in where you want them.

For example:

select *
  from mytable
 where mycolvalue = 'a'
   and mycolvalue2 <> 'b'

If you mean to return two rows in a recordset rather than one, then you can't really unless you can union the two together.

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this is a text for my selecy html

"Arquivo Morto = [ Solicitação/Arquivamento de documentos do arquivo morto; solicitação de cópias de notas fiscais. ]"

but it is very long and I'd like something like this way:

Arquivo Morto = [ Solicitação/Arquivamento de documentos do
arquivo morto; solicitação de cópias de notas fiscais. ]

a select with two lines

thanks
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hummm

I think I will have to reduce the text.

Is there any way to make my select drop down box with 8 rows at least ?

Ahh, my mistake, I assumed SQL. Sorry :)

This is not possible within a select list in HTML.
<select multiple="multiple" size="8">
Well that makes it a multiple select box allowing you to choose more than one option. I think the question author wants to display a drop down whereby extended text in it appears as more than one row rather than a wide drop down or in some cases a drop down that shows part of the long text in it.

Lee
what about the textarea in the second link ID:35769146?
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thanks very much