Limiting width of <select> box

[Manny Klystron]

How do I peg the width of the box generated by a <select> tag, clipping

<options> that're too long for it? It's turning out to be difficult to

google for.

This is IE6, IE7, Safari. IE7 is ignoring the "clip: rect{}" style.
Options are generated in code, so I could do a measure there and clip
by hand, but I wouldn't think I'd need to.


Thanks!

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

How do I peg the width of the box generated by a <select> tag,
clipping

<options> that're too long for it? It's turning out to be difficult to

google for.

This is IE6, IE7, Safari. IE7 is ignoring the "clip: rect{}" style.
Options are generated in code, so I could do a measure there and clip
by hand, but I wouldn't think I'd need to.


Thanks!

There isn't much you can do for this. You can try setting the width in
CSS, but that doesn't always work. If the list is generated server
side, that's your best bet. Actually, this is something I very rarely
worry about, if it's wide, it's wide, that's just the way the cookie
crumbles. You might be able to move some other form elements around to
accomodate it.