I completely agree that adding padding to select elements is not a
good idea. I was simply giving an explanation of why the the right
column select elements break the vertical alignment. I've added
padding to select elements in past project and it was a cross browser
nightmare.

On May 30, 7:55 pm, Christian Montoya <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:20 PM, speedunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm guessing this is due to the select elements not having any padding
> > whereas the input.text and input.title elements have a 5px padding.
> > I've tested adding padding to select elements and it appeared to fix
> > the vertical alignment... but padding select elements kinda looks odd
> > because the control arrow is no longer flush to the top/right/bottom
> > of select field.
>
> I would not recommend padding select elements, they can look very
> different across browsers, especially since on OSX the elements have a
> completely custom design. Textareas, [text] inputs and buttons are the
> only ones you can reliably style.
>
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> --
> Christian Montoya
> mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net
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