Hi Sandra, First off, let me say that I absolutely accept you as the authority on CSS, at least on this list. But... This seems to work (in the drop-downs if no size specified), even on chrome:
<form> <select name="s"> <option style="background-color:green">Green</option> <option style="background-color:red">Red</option> </select> </form> -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CSS Question You can't color individual option tags. You can however color <optgroup> tags Sandra Clark ============= http://www.shayna.com Training and Consulting in CSS and Accessibility Team Fusebox -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CSS Question this colors the entire option tag here's the rendered html with a div in place, still no love <select name="hex_id" id="hex_id"> <option value="#6666CC" selected><div style="display: block; background-color:#6666CC; border:medium; border-color:#000000; width:10px; height:10px;"> </div>#6666CC</option> <option value="#66CC66" ><div style="display: block; background-color:#66CC66; border:medium; border-color:#000000; width:10px; height:10px;"> </div>#66CC66</option> <option value="#CC6699" ><div style="display: block; background-color:#CC6699; border:medium; border-color:#000000; width:10px; height:10px;"> </div>#CC6699</option> </select> Weidler, Wilfred C. wrote: > Put the style attribute in the <option> tag and get rid of the <span>. > > Chuck > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:07 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CSS Question > > <cfoutput query="getHexID"> > <option value="#hex_id#" <cfif hex_id eq > get_category.hex_id>selected<cfelse></cfif>> > <span style="background-color:#hex_id#; border:medium; width:10px; > height:10px;"> </span>#hex_id# > </option> > </cfoutput> > > any reason why the span tag shouldn't produce a small box colored with > the dynamic hex value > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > > Office of Research Information Systems > Research & Economic Development > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > Phone:(919)843-2408 > Fax: (919)962-3600 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312617 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4