How to put a button inside a listbox.

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I am searching a lot to find how to put a button inside listbox. The purpose is to close the listbox. If not , on document click I want to close listbox.
Can any one guide me.

Posted 26-Dec-12 3:47am

S.Rajendran from Coimbatore

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Zafar Sultan 26-Dec-12 10:12am

What do you mean by "closing" the listbox. How do you want to close it when it is not opened? Are you sure you are talking about listbox as it is a dropdownlist with multiple-selection option?

ZurdoDev 26-Dec-12 10:15am

You can use the onclick event of the body element but your description does not make a lot of sense. Maybe an illustration or example would help.

Yaseer Arafat 26-Dec-12 10:26am

Could you please give a brief description and some code block you used.

[no name] 26-Dec-12 11:34am

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.itemscontrol.addchild.aspx

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Dec-12 12:46pm

Bad idea, I would say. Why? I noticed the beginners heavily suffer from "button sickness", as if they were not the users themselves.
—SA

_Amy 26-Dec-12 23:24pm

What have you tried so far? Any dummy codes?

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You cannot close a ListBox as it is a control on the form. Although if you want to put a button on a ListBox I would use a ListView as it can contain custom columns types as described here[^].

Posted 26-Dec-12 5:31am

Mike Hankey

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Dec-12 12:57pm

More exactly, not just "you cannot", but it makes no sense; and the advice to use ListView would not be a good idea either, by the reasons I explained in my answer — please see.
Therefore, I voted 4, OK?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-26T06:55:00

Makes no sense at all. Please also see my comment. The whole notion of "close" is something undetermined. What is supposed to happen, exactly?

Probably, the list box can disappear, and its place will be taken by some other controls. But even if you have such design, don't put a button. No normal user expects a "Close" button, especially insider the control itself. If you look around, you will see that there is no such metaphor at all. Even a window (form) is not closed by something in its area. Look thoroughly: it is closed by a button which is in the window non-client area.

So, you can do something similar, the way the behavior is expected. Put your list box (or a number of control) on a visually separated panel (borders, color), and have a small crossed-box button in the right top corner of this panel. Only in this case the user will immediately see what to do.

Better yet, review the design based on removing of UI elements, design something more usual. One typical suggestion would be the TabControl. I cannot give any specific advice without knowing your detail.

—SA