I have found when floating selects, it's better to set width on the option element than the select element. If you float a select and sets its width in Firefox, skipping to a part of the list by pressing a letter doesn't work like it should. With width on the option instead, this problem goes away.
On 4/7/07, Jukka K. Korpela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Mauricio Samy Silva wrote: > > > It's well know that some styles applied to an OPTION element inside a > > SELECT in most cases is honored by Firefox but doesn't by IE. > > Yes, and this varies by browser version as well. > > > For example: if we set width:120px for the select and width:200px for > > the OPTION, IE ignore the 200px and goes with 120px for the OPTION. > > Since the option elements are inside a select element, what should really > happen? By CSS specifications, the contents of select overflows, and > overflow is visible by default; the select box width should not change. We > can speculate about possible browser style sheet that make the observed > behavior nominally acceptable, but the bottom line is that you cannot > expect anything consistent here. > > > Are there a workaround in order to force IE behaves like FFox? > > Hardly. But if you want 120px width for a select menu, why don't you set > that width, instead of trying to override the select width in inner > elements (which really _shouldn't_ work, by CSS specs). > > -- > Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- MVH Christian ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
