RadComboBox width can not be changed - combobox

I am evaluating Kendo UI web controls trial. My appliction used RadComboBox control. its Width still 100% on page and i can not change it.
I set the combobox width to Width="300px" but it still wide on page.

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Many thanks to any of you awesome people that can help me out. I've been working with WPF consecutively for long enough to fry my brain, and a simple solution to this problem escapes me (I need a break!)
Well nevermind!
This is what happens when you've spent too long working on stuff.
The solution was to give the TabItems a margin that gives the extra height above them, and then to set the TabPanel's Height property to Auto inside the TabControl's ControlTemplate. Duh!

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I have an aspx page, with a div that I want to replace with a Silverlight application. The content inside this div is responsible for filtering some data, and is quite small (200 pixels x 200 pixels about).
One of the comboboxes in the Silverlight app that I made to replace that content, contains a long list of items.
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