Drop down list not accepting class

Hi,

How can I set a style on a drop down list in a form? I wish to set the
border to a certain color.

What works on other form elements:

..formborder {
border-color : #1A2F80;
border-style : solid;
border-width : 1px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
font-weight: normal;
}

Does not seem to work on the drop down list...

Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.

McEve wrote:

How can I set a style on a drop down list in a form?

Same as anything else in theory (assuming you mean a select element). In
practise browser support is rather limited.

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=Verdana

font-size: 9px;

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPixels

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

"David Dorward" <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

McEve wrote:
How can I set a style on a drop down list in a form?

Same as anything else in theory (assuming you mean a select element). In
practise browser support is rather limited.

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=Verdana

font-size: 9px;

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPixels

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/

The drop down box accepts the font style, it's the border it won't accept.
The drop down is an <option> inside a <select> inside a <form> inside a
<table>. I've set the class on both option and select - but the drop down
box does not accept the border. All other form elements do....

So what's so special about the drop down..?

McEve wrote:

How can I set a style on a drop down list in a form?

Same as anything else in theory (assuming you mean a select element). In
practise browser support is rather limited.

The drop down is an <option> inside a <select> inside a <form> inside a
table>. I've set the class on both option and select - but the drop down
box does not accept the border. All other form elements do....

So what's so special about the drop down..?

Its often rendered as an OS control rather then a browser control and hence
supports limited styling. This varies from browser to browser.

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=Verdana

font-size: 9px;
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPixels

The drop down box accepts the font style, it's the border it won't accept.

Which doesn't change the problems with using pixels for font sizes and
Verdana for font-family.

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

"David Dorward" <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

So what's so special about the drop down..?

Its often rendered as an OS control rather then a browser control and
hence
supports limited styling. This varies from browser to browser.

So it's not possible to set border on a drop down box?

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=Verdana

font-size: 9px;
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPixels

The drop down box accepts the font style, it's the border it won't
accept.

Which doesn't change the problems with using pixels for font sizes and
Verdana for font-family.

ok, I see your point.

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/

McEve wrote:

So what's so special about the drop down..?

Its often rendered as an OS control rather then a browser control and
hence supports limited styling. This varies from browser to browser.

So it's not possible to set border on a drop down box?

As I said before - its possible - but your browser doesn't appear to support
it.

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

"David Dorward" <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

McEve wrote:

So what's so special about the drop down..?

Its often rendered as an OS control rather then a browser control and
hence supports limited styling. This varies from browser to browser.

So it's not possible to set border on a drop down box?

As I said before - its possible - but your browser doesn't appear to
support
it.

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/

I checked Mozilla, IE, Opera and Netscape. All latest version. None of them
display the border, so which browser does? And how would you define a style
for the drop down box?

Nina