Drop Down Menus

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[fashezee]

How come I cannot bold any text within a drop down menu? Are there special codes I must
use or is it just impossible?

[AWildman]

Absolutely. Just create a class for bold text and put it in the opening select as in the following:

<select name = "state" class = "smallboldtext">
<option value = "">Choose your state:</option>
<option value = "California">California</option>
<option value = "Colorado">Colorado</option>
<option value = "Florida">Florida</option>
</select>

.smallboldtext{font-weight: bold;}

[fashezee]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I need to bold a specific <option> of the drop down menu.

Regarding the above mention example; I would like to have:

<option value = "Colorado">Colorado</option>

bolded? Is it possible..

[AWildman]

Oh...that's a different story. I just played around trying to do that and couldn't get it to work. I won't say it can't be done but I couldn't do it. I tried putting a class on it and simply using <strong> tags.

[hooloovoo22]

Credit to BlobFisk for the following:

There are issues with this in certain browsers. Mozilla allows you to style the text and the backgound, while IE allows you to only change the backgound.
For example, this CSS:

.myBold { font-weight: bold; background: #ffc; color: #369; }

and <option class="myBold">Something</option> will show different results in different browsers. In IE you will just see a background colour change, in Mozilla all 3 styles will apply!