Drop down menus

Setting the width of a select box

[karen_pope]

Was wondering if anyone knew if there was a way to set the width of a drop down menu rather than it being left to default resulting from the number of characters the options are.

I know that the size element allows you to set how may menu options are visable. Have tried width="" but doesnt work!

I could use non-breaking spaces but this is messy!

Any help will be much appreiciated!

[joshie76]

CSS style attributes can control the width of SELECT boxes:

<select style="width:300px"> ...

However this will be ignored by Netscape 4.x - the only way I know to control the width of a SELECT box in NN4 is to modify the length of the options themselves.

[tedster]

Width="" was a proprietary attribute that only works in Netscape 4, but it DOES work there. There's no harm in using a combined approach:

<select NAME="foo" WIDTH="150" STYLE="width: 150px">
<option>burger
<option>fries
<option>soda
</select>

[joshie76]

Nice one tedster!

I didn't know that.

[tedster]

NN4 was my default browser for years, just so I would force myself to learn its many quirks! (I'm glad to be leaving it behind for Opera)