Re: Drop Down on width in IE5

    Here's an idea I sometimes use:  In the first (visible) box, I put the
text "select one" (or whatever), & add blank spaces or dashes or whatever
looks good untill that box is the width I want - which is usually the length
of the longest option.
      Paul

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Liston" <rliston(at)home.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: Drop Down on width in IE5


> The only way I found to make them both consistent in size and display is
to
> use a fixed-width font like Courier as the select font.
>
> HTH
>
> At 05:01 AM 09/18/2001, you wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>IE5 seems to constrain select drop down width to the display width
rather
> >>that the max width of the option values.  Netscape 6  respects the
width,
> >>but lets drop down resize to max with of option value list. Any ideas on
> >>how
> >>to make IE5 perform same way?
> >>
> >>Sample code:
> >>
> >><select name="Test" size="1" style="width: 125px; font-family: Arial,
> >>Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">
> >> <option value="1">Selection Number 1 Selection Number 1</option>
> >> <option value="2">Selection Number 2 Selection Number 2</option>
> >> <option value="3">Selection Number 3 Selection Number 3</option>
> >> <option value="4">Selection Number 4 Selection Number 4</option>
> >> <option value="5">Selection Number 5 Selection Number
5</option></select>
>
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