At 12:03 PM +0900 6/30/07, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
>On Jun 30, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Luc wrote:
>
>> Only thing that Opera, moz and FF refuses to do is making the
>> subject box wide
>> enough ... do they require a special declaration for this, since IE
>> (for once) doesn't have a problem with it?
>
>You mean the <select> element ?
>IE doesn't allow much styling on that one.
>Other browsers are affected by this:
>> * {
>> padding: 0;
>> margin: 0;
>> }
>which can make the <select> box narrower, in different ways depending
>on which browser/OS you look at.
>
>see
><http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/15/formal-weirdness/>
>why it is not such a great idea to style form controls
>and
><http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/>
>or previous articles on the same subject linked from there
>(on why using the universal selector for that 'reset' isn't a great
>idea either)
>
>Philippe
I had the same problem, namely the select options were very long and
as a result the select bar was too long.
I fixed the problem by simply using a drop-down menu with only one
main menu item. I could narrow the default item and expand the drop
down items.
Sometime controls are a pain.
Cheers,
tedd
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