>I have a Cold Fusion Web Application that requires a user to link certain records to an available activity. So what I thought to do was to list the Record in a Grid with the next two columns having a drop down box. Then allow the user to choose which activity they wish to link to the record (can be one or more activities linked to a record). The number of records will fluctuate, so one time there may be 25, then next 55. The user wished to do all there linking through just one web page and press a SUBMIT button to process the record linking. So I created this web page in Cold Fusion and it generates a nice one page that does what I want and the user wishes. Except when the records to process is greater than 30, then I.E. does not show any of the comboboxes (SELECT OPTION) and you cant view the source code as it indicates you have no memory to do so.

So my question is there a limit to the number of ComboBoxes or as this web page has 4,600 chracters on it, is the size to0 large for IE to handle.

By the way Netscape does not like it either.


Bret;

I gave up on Netscape long ago. The magic number is 30? That is what I "love" about web development - things that work in other programming languages may behave differently with a Web Application. I have a few controls (also select option) that do strange things. Some are data driven and others are hard coded. Each seems to have a mind of its own. I find that when I have calls to methods such as OnChange(), things become shaky.

My pages have a maximum pagecount of 10 so I have not ventured out beyond that point as you have done. Are the combo boxes not visible at all? When you loose your control source a combo box will collapse to a very small width but the height remains the same. I use absolute positioning for all my objects within < div tags so I can move things around if required. My forms have at least 5 Include files and each form has over 4000 lines of code (validation and business rules etc.).

Which browser and version are you using. We have found IE version 5.0 to be the “most stable” and version 5.5 (SP1, etc.) is not ready to become our corporate standard – it does strange things. Version 4.0 will not work with my application as I am using VBScript version 5.0.

It bothers me that Microsoft since the introduction of Windows 95 has had this vision that all applications should be run through a Browser. Since no two types or versions of browsers behave the same I see this as an impossible dream. Couple this with the zealous Microsoft Marketing and Sales Staff who influence many IT departments and you have developers trying to do something that may not be possible and will certainly take longer to develop.

The new .NET technology is just that – new. I would guess that Microsoft already has a vision of the technology that will replace .NET. January of year 2000, we saw a number of products released. Windows 2000 was waiting for us with II, VBScript 5.0, ASP3.0, ADO version 2.5, COM+, etc. were released. In June it was announced that .NET would replace all of that and much more. We had not even used the latest greatest technology for five months and Microsoft already trashed what tools we were using and made obsolete the concepts we were involved with for web application development. With the announcement of dropping Visual Interdev (our corporate standard) and major training institutions no longer offering training with that tool, it makes you wonder. When Visual Studio 7.0 is released it may take 18 months before a good service pack is released and we have a stable product. It the mean time our organization will continue to use Visual Interdev.

Well, sorry to carry on but I am having what I call a “Browser Experience” – something happening that cannot be explained by created intelligence.

Wish you the best it finding a solution to your problem but do consider trying another version of a browser.

Tom