[thelist] ASP question: the string is too long for the pulldown menu

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Hi everyone!
I tried but I couldn't find the answer in the archive.  So here is the
question:

I am working on an ASP page.  The database is Access.  I pulled out all the
keywords from the database and put them into a pulldown menu, which are all
the keywords for some projects. Some of the strings are really long (don't =
ask
me why the keywords are so long), they are longer than my table width (I ca=
n't
change the design at this stage).  So I used "Left(rs("keyword"),80)" funct=
ion
to cut the string.  But I have a problem here: I don't want the last word t=
o
be cut in half.  What I like is that the user should be able to see the
complete last word such as "policy" instead of "poli".  I know I can search
for the nearest space after position 80, but is there any other way to hand=
le
this?  Any suggestions?  How do you set the width of a pulldown menu? Can y=
ou?

Thank you for any help.
Z.P.

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