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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 10/18/07 15:13
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Brian Cryer"
<brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> writing in
news:xPednYtDjYaZ94ranZ2dnUVZ8qminZ2d@pipex.net:
> One of the websites I'm responsible for has a toolbar down the left
> hand side, which contains within it amongst other things a number of
> drop down list boxes. Depending on what the user selects a map or
> chart is drawn using the options the user has specified.
>
> I've hit a problem with Internet Explorer. The left hand toolbar has a
> fixed width, and I constrain my drop down list boxes to that width. In
> Firefox if the content is longer than the list box then you still get
> to see all the content when you click on the box - but in IE its
> truncated. For example:
>
><select name="Select1" style="width: 10em">
><option>men, women and children</option>
><option>boys toys</option>
></select>
>
> The first option will be truncated in IE (the second option is short
> and displays fine), but in Firefox is still fully visible when you
> click on the list box and it opens (even though the width when
> collapsed is constrained to 10em). I hope that's clear.
>
> Its only recently that the content of these list boxes has grown. I
> don't want to increase the available width because that impacts on
> other things and I risk a complete page redesign (which I want to
> avoid). The client is happy that when the list box is collapsed that
> the content is truncated but wants to be able to see it in full when
> its expanded.
>
> Any ideas? or am I stuffed?
>
> TIA
Even with my crystal ball in the shop, I can see that this is a rigid
design that is obviously breaking, probably nested tables and other
nasty things. I predict you need to redesign using a fluid design,
semantic markup, external CSS, etc.
The little snippet is not nearly enough information. You really need to
provide a URL.
--
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http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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