Can you GROUP the items?
FRUIT:
-- Apples
-- Oranges
MEAT:
-- ground Beef
-- Steak

...etc
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:07 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: add a break inside a select list?

Then just three ideas:
A flash form.
Highlight multiple lines through javascript. When you are writing out
the select options, add a function to highlight attached rows.
Write your own dhtml dropdown list that behaves however you want.

On 2/23/06, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Jerry.  I actually tried that, but the client isn't liking it 
> so much.  They think it is confusing.
>
>
>
> Jerry Johnson wrote:
> > I break the long string into multiple lines, add 2 spaces before all

> > but the first line, and set the value for each to the same value.
> >
> > This does not highlight all the lines when moused over, but my users

> > haven't complained yet.
> >
> > On 2/23/06, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I swear this was answered before - but I can't find it anywhere.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to make an option in a select list break into two or

> >> more lines?  In other words, my drop-down list is dynamically 
> >> built, and it is becoming silly-long, throwing off my page width.  
> >> Is there a way for me to break it out to two lines?  Like using
<br> or \n or whatever?
> >
> >
>
> 



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