When using the DropDownList component with less than seven items, there is extra whitespace:

In terms of user experience, this extra whitespace is clutter as it takes up visual space yet serves no viable purpose to the user. Clutter gives an unfinished appearance and should be removed if possible.

You can remove the extra whitespace by specifying Height and MaxHeight in the DropDownListSettings render fragment:

<TelerikDropDownList Data="@_dropDownData" @bind-Value="@_selectedPod">
    <DropDownListSettings>
        <DropDownListPopupSettings Height="auto" MaxHeight="200px"/>
    </DropDownListSettings>
</TelerikDropDownList>

However, having to specify DropDownListSettings for every DropDownList component that has fewer than seven items is laborious and verbose. I would like there to be no extra whitespace in DropDownList components by default without having to specify DropDownListSettings.