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<select> tag (dropdownlist) textbox height

<select> tag (dropdownlist) textbox height

ismailc	21 Oct, 2009 - 06:37 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Sep, 2007 Posts: 76 Thanked: 3 times My Contributions	Good day, I know it is not possible to change the border of a dropdown (select tag) in IE7 browser. I managed to change the height by increasing the font of the dropdown. I don't realy want to change the font, is there another way - i played around with line-heigth but also no luck. Please Assist!
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ecuscotty	RE: <select> Tag (dropdownlist) Textbox Height 21 Oct, 2009 - 06:54 AM Post #2
New D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Oct, 2009 Posts: 40 Thanked: 5 times My Contributions	You can change it with the style attribute of the select tag... CODE <select name="test" style="height:50;"> <option>One</option> <option>Two</option> </select> Have fun.
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ecuscotty	RE: <select> Tag (dropdownlist) Textbox Height 21 Oct, 2009 - 09:53 AM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Oct, 2009 Posts: 40 Thanked: 5 times My Contributions	Sorry I didn't test properly. This works in FF but not IE...
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MacAnimeGirl	RE: <select> Tag (dropdownlist) Textbox Height 21 Oct, 2009 - 11:53 AM Post #4
D.I.C Regular Joined: 30 Sep, 2008 Posts: 276 Thanked: 6 times My Contributions	Have you tried the line height of both the options and the select? You could try putting them in a span and see if it will make it any bigger.
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tharam04	RE: <select> Tag (dropdownlist) Textbox Height 3 Nov, 2009 - 01:33 PM Post #5
New D.I.C Head Joined: 27 Feb, 2009 Posts: 13 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Another way would be to do it like this CODE <select name="test" size="2"> <option>One</option> <option>Two</option> </select> You can increase or decrease the size to show all or some of the options.
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