Word Spacing in a form SELECT element

I have a form with a select element, and I would like to change the
word spacing for the options. I'm a little confused as to what I
should reference to do that. I have tried various combinations, but
none have worked.

Here's what I have to work with (as far form and select element names
go):

<form action="xxx" method="post" id="form1">

<div class="form-item" id="edit-attributes-1-wrapper">

<select name="attributes[1]" class="form-select required"
id="edit-attributes-1" >

- options are in here -

</select>
</div>

</form>


Anyone have an idea as to what class or id combo will allow me to
change the word spacing for the options?

Thanks!

FT

Ok, to partially answer my question: I can get it to work, but not in
IE. I know I read some years ago that IE resists styling an option -
has there been any way developed to get around this?

Thanks,

FT


On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:56:08 GMT, ZZ <noway (AT) wpenewon (DOT) org> wrote:

I have a form with a select element, and I would like to change the
word spacing for the options. I'm a little confused as to what I
should reference to do that. I have tried various combinations, but
none have worked.

Here's what I have to work with (as far form and select element names
go):

form action="xxx" method="post" id="form1"

div class="form-item" id="edit-attributes-1-wrapper"

select name="attributes[1]" class="form-select required"
id="edit-attributes-1"

- options are in here -

/select
/div

/form


Anyone have an idea as to what class or id combo will allow me to
change the word spacing for the options?

Thanks!

FT

ZZ wrote:

Ok, to partially answer my question:

You're upside-down fullquoting your own question. Sounds pretty hopeless,
but being an optimist, I'm taking a look...

I have a form with a select element, and I would like to change the
word spacing for the options.

Is there a reason to that?

I'm a little confused as to what I
should reference to do that. I have tried various combinations, but
none have worked.

Yet you don't specify the URL of _any_ of your attempts.

Anyone have an idea as to what class or id combo will allow me to
change the word spacing for the options?

What makes you think _that_ is the problem?

You can refer to all <option> elements in a document using the selector
option

I'm pretty sure this wasn't your _real_ question. But since you don't
specify what you are aiming at and what you have tried, I just answered the
question you asked.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

If you don't understand the question, or just want to be sarcastic,
please don't waste mine and everyone else's time.

-Tom


On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:24:52 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote:

ZZ wrote:

Ok, to partially answer my question:

You're upside-down fullquoting your own question. Sounds pretty hopeless,
but being an optimist, I'm taking a look...

I have a form with a select element, and I would like to change the
word spacing for the options.

Is there a reason to that?

I'm a little confused as to what I
should reference to do that. I have tried various combinations, but
none have worked.

Yet you don't specify the URL of _any_ of your attempts.

Anyone have an idea as to what class or id combo will allow me to
change the word spacing for the options?

What makes you think _that_ is the problem?

You can refer to all <option> elements in a document using the selector
option

I'm pretty sure this wasn't your _real_ question. But since you don't
specify what you are aiming at and what you have tried, I just answered the
question you asked.

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:27:17 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little"
<lws4art (AT) central (DOT) net> wrote:

ZZ wrote:
If you don't understand the question, or just want to be sarcastic,
please don't waste mine and everyone else's time.

Please don't top post.


On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:24:52 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela"
jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote:

ZZ wrote:

Ok, to partially answer my question:
You're upside-down fullquoting your own question. Sounds pretty hopeless,
but being an optimist, I'm taking a look...

I have a form with a select element, and I would like to change the
word spacing for the options.
Is there a reason to that?

Agree, why would you wish it?

It matters? This is a technical question.

I'm a little confused as to what I
should reference to do that. I have tried various combinations, but
none have worked.
Yet you don't specify the URL of _any_ of your attempts.

Anyone have an idea as to what class or id combo will allow me to
change the word spacing for the options?
What makes you think _that_ is the problem?

The ID or CLASS can be whatever you wish it to be, the identifier is not
important but the rules that you define!

Yes, I am aware.

You can refer to all <option> elements in a document using the selector
option

I'm pretty sure this wasn't your _real_ question. But since you don't
specify what you are aiming at and what you have tried, I just answered the
question you asked.


As I believe has been stated, do not expect full browser support! This
will not work with IE...

That pretty much answers the question then - when I researched this on
the web, the postings I found were a couple of years old. I didn't
know if someone came up with a way to pull this sort of thing off in
IE or not (as per my previous posting). It works fine in other
browsers I tested (firefox, safari, chrome).

I've seen it done before, but only using javascript to force it in all
browsers. I wanted to try avoid doing that, but it seems that won't
be possible.

Tom

ZZ wrote:

That pretty much answers the question then - when I researched this on
the web, the postings I found were a couple of years old. I didn't
know if someone came up with a way to pull this sort of thing off in
IE or not (as per my previous posting). It works fine in other
browsers I tested (firefox, safari, chrome).

Plan A: Take over the world and make using IE a capital offense

Plan B: Become a corporate raider, take over Microsoft and force the
company to fix IE

Plan C: A more practical solution if you must have this "feature" is to
inject &nbsp; into the option text.

<option>Now&nbsp;&nbsp;words&nbsp;&nbsp;have&nbsp; &nbsp;extra&nbsp;&nbsp;space</option>

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Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

ZZ schreef:

It works fine in other
browsers I tested (firefox, safari, chrome).

But not in Opera

--
Rob

RW wrote:

ZZ schreef:

It works fine in other
browsers I tested (firefox, safari, chrome).

But not in Opera

Not surprising - Opera has always been a little sketchy where it comes
to styling form controls.

--
Berg