[WSG] Select Padding in IE

[Daniel Anderson]

G'day

I am having problems with applying padding to a SELECT element.

It works fine in Firefox but the padding does not get applied in IE?

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Cheers

Daniel


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Re: [WSG] Select Padding in IE

[Nathanael Boehm]

If you want to style selects best bet is to use one of the customised select
jQuery plugins available.

In my experience they're a bit nasty and can cause all sorts of problems not
least of all performance because they replace the select with a bunch of
divs and spans or lists and then have to simulate all the behaviour of a
native select ... but if you *need* to have it styled to that extent then I
suggest you look into them.

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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Daniel Anderson daniela...@gmail.comwrote:

 G'day

 I am having problems with applying padding to a SELECT element.

 It works fine in Firefox but the padding does not get applied in IE?

 Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

 Cheers

 Daniel

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Re: [WSG] Select Padding in IE

[Nick Cowie]

 Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

 Don't use padding  ;-)

You need to put a wrapper div around it and play with conditional comments.

IE has fixed some values for form elements and you can not change them, I
know that IE6  had fixed values for padding and some others for attributes
of the button element.  (this was while investigating a solution to fixed
values in Safari on OsX for input type submit)


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