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title: "How do I remove a listbox new item placeholder?"  
description: "How do I remove a listbox new item placeholder?"  
author: "Samuel Fernandes"  
published: 2013-09-24  
updated: 2013-09-24  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1519/how-do-i-remove-a-listbox-new-item-placeholder  
category: "wpf"  
tags: ["wpf"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How do I remove a listbox new item placeholder?

I have been scratching my head for a while with an [extra](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/63570/5-ways-to-make-money-with-the-extra-space-in-your-home) [item](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156564/remove-item-in-an-array-in-javascript) in a wrap [panel](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11988/restructuring-corporate-offenses-government-appointed-panel-suggests-in-house-adjudication-system) for [content](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13019/get-the-best-content-marketing-pricing-packages-for-your-brand) in a ListBox.

I finally striped back my [code](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85458/alan-turing-the-mastermind-behind-cracking-the-enigma-code-during-world-war-ii) and discovered the LixtBox itself has a New Item [Placeholder](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2086/what-is-the-use-of-placeholder-control-can-we-see-it-at-runtime) at the [end](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/88503/us-iran-war-live-updates-trump-says-us-in-no-rush-to-end-iran-war) of the [data](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13050/salesforce-aiming-to-dominate-predictive-analytics-with-data-science) I have bound to it.

I haven't been able to [figure](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87536/what-are-ghosts-jobs-and-how-to-figure-out-them) out how to [disable](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12901/how-to-disable-enable-input-box-in-aspx-with-value-from-sql) the New Item Placeholder. Any suggestions?

## Replies

### Reply by Pravesh Singh

Hi Samuel,I discovered that the data source was being affected by a DataGrid. Within the same screen I am displaying detailed data in a DataGrid and also summary data in a ListBox.

We don't allow users to add items to the DataGrid so after I set the DataGrid's CanUserAddRows="False" my problem went away.


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