Wrap long-text in drop-down list?

Question

I have legibly long text in a drop-down list on my asp.net page. it violates the UI boundary and goes beyond the allocated region of UI.

Is there anyway I can wrap [

Answer 1

I've been responding to old questions like this. It's a common problem that hasn't really been addressed even since 2009 :). I wrote this a while back that you may find helpful: http://dpatrickcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/06/giantdropdown-jquery-plugin-for-styling.html

It's a jquery plugin to make a styleable unordered list backed by the hidden select element.

The source is on github: https://github.com/tncbbthositg/GiantDropdown

You'd be able to handle behaviors and styles on the UL that you can't with the SELECT. Everything else should be the same because the select list is still there, it's just hidden but the UL will use it as a backing data store (if you will).