On Thu, March 26, 2009 10:18 pm, Angela French wrote: > Can CSS be applied to the <select> tag in IE? I can't get mine to remove > the 3D effect. I remember something about the styling of selects being an > operating system style that can't be overwritten. >
It depends which version of IE. IE 6 and below implement the <select> element as a windowed control [1], so it follows the user's settings for their Windows appearance and cannot be styled with CSS. As of IE 7, it becomes a windowless control, and can be styled. [1] <http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/17/514076.aspx> Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
