Firstly, the Option tags, represent data for a select box, they really have no specific "HTML" visual capabilties, ie its just a tag based way of populating an array.
The select tag, represents your container and thats where you start/stop with visual stylization of a select box (dimensions etc). You can change colors/fonts for every nth-option tag, but thats limited to basics colorization (ie background-color, color etc). Secondly, the overall parent container will dictate how your Select tag can and will work aswell, you can provide a width in px for the specific tag in question, but that will lock that tag into the size you specify via CSS and won't grow past that point. Bottom line, it cannot be done. The SELECT tag especially follows a totally different ruleset to what typical DOM elements follow. In that, if you were to give a parent container to the select tag a dimenision of 100px, and then before the select tag, put an image of 200px inside that container. Internet Explorer will render that contianer to be the width of 100px, even though the "div" or parent container, is actually 200px. Reason being, is that somehow when parsed, the DOM took 100px to be the actual width, and didn't do a second parse to see that in fact the 200px image adjusted the dimenion of that container. Do a dump of the DOM tree via FireFox aswell, you'll see some really quirky results there and values say and do one thing while visually it does another. --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
