Lloyd Hassell — Mon, 12 Jun 2000 06:23:00 +0000

The only way you can control the width of a select box is by the largest option value. What I do is create a dummy entry with non-breaking spaces.

<option>SELECT       

Vincent Puglia — Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:55:00 +0000

Hi,

If the max size really is an issue and you are loading the options dynamically, I would truncate them before assigning them to the selection list. It may make for an occasional unreadable option, but it won't force the user to scroll right, either. Another alternative would be to add a column to your database -- if that is where the data comes from -- consisting of short text.

John, I'm pretty sure I tried "style= " at some point, and if it did work for IE, it probably failed with NN. Then again, I may have tried to force a wider box.

Vinny

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John Pollock — Fri, 09 Jun 2000 17:13:00 +0000

Might be possible in IE with style sheets, otherwise I think the only way is to keep the options short?

Something like:
<SELECT style="width:50">
etc..
</SELECT>

might do it in IE, not sure though.