How do I limit length of a dropdown menu?

Question

I have a drop down menu that represents a field in my database table that is several hunfred characters long. How could I limit the size of the text box on my JSP page so that it doesn't represent the entire length of the string? Either cutting it off at a certain point and not being able to see the remainder of the string would be good or even better if when the string was selected, the user could scroll across a text box of size 30 across to see the entire string.
Please help and show some code if possible.
Thank you very much in advance for your assistance.

Answer 1

This is the tag I am trying to limit the size of the drop down menu.
PLEASE HELP!!!!
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right"><B><B><div class="text">Number:</div></B></TD>
<TD><SELECT type="select" name="Number">
<OPTION value=0> - Select Number - </OPTION>
<%
String[] NumberList = beanName.getList("NumberList");
if (NumberList != null)
for (int i=0; i < NumberList.length; i++)
if (NumberList.equals (strSelectedResource))
%>
<OPTION selected value="<%= NumberList[i] %>"> <%= NumberList[i] %> </OPTION>
<%
else
%>
<OPTION value="<%= NumberList[i] %>"> <%= NumberList[i] %> </OPTION>
<%
else
%>
<OPTION> No Numbers Loaded </OPTION>
<%
%>
</SELECT>
</TD>
</TR>