[WSG] Safari, select, and option attributes.
Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is it my bad coding, or does Safari (v2.02, latest build) not honour any select styles? Further, is there a way to dictate how option can display styled font attributes across all CSS-compliant browsers? My aim is to make the drop-down in the same style as the rest of the page, but I'm having limited success. Firefox and IE have no problems, on WinXP and OS X (though IE on OS X does odd things when options are selected). TIps? Suggestions? Am I going the wrong way here? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Safari, select, and option attributes.
On 6 Nov 2005, at 10:54 am, ivanovitch wrote: Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is it my bad coding, or does Safari (v2.02, latest build) not honour any select styles? Further, is there a way to dictate how option can display styled font attributes across all CSS-compliant browsers? My aim is to make the drop-down in the same style as the rest of the page, but I'm having limited success. Firefox and IE have no problems, on WinXP and OS X (though IE on OS X does odd things when options are selected). Styling form widgets across browsers is notoriously difficult: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/ styling_even_more_form_controls/ (and from a usability perspective, not always the recommended option) And no, Safari doesn't allow styling of the select and option, the same goes for Camino and iCab. Opera has a user option to disable author styling of form widgets (something I really like...). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Safari, select, and option attributes.
Thanks, Philippe - I was hoping that I'd hear otherwise. I'm not attempting to make radical changes to the user interface: just aiming for consistency. Interesting that certain widgets are off-limits in this sense, yet submit can be OS-built, text, or image. I had considered using dropdown menu scripting for this, but sense massive overkill (and I don't like javascript unless absolutely needed). Ta. On 06/11/05, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Nov 2005, at 10:54 am, ivanovitch wrote: Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is it my bad coding, or does Safari (v2.02, latest build) not honour any select styles? Further, is there a way to dictate how option can display styled font attributes across all CSS-compliant browsers? My aim is to make the drop-down in the same style as the rest of the page, but I'm having limited success. Firefox and IE have no problems, on WinXP and OS X (though IE on OS X does odd things when options are selected). Styling form widgets across browsers is notoriously difficult: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/ styling_even_more_form_controls/ (and from a usability perspective, not always the recommended option) And no, Safari doesn't allow styling of the select and option, the same goes for Camino and iCab. Opera has a user option to disable author styling of form widgets (something I really like...). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://emps.l-c-n.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
