bolding text w/in list/menu?

Is it possible, and if so, how, to bold some text in a list/menu in a form?

Do you mean a combo box (in other words, the control rendered by a
form's <select> and <option> tags)? If so, CSS may be your best bet. You
can create styles via Dreamweaver's interface or on your own (they're just
text files, like HTML). You can create an element selector that bolds all
<option> tags or a class selector that styles specifiy <option> tags -- in
which case you'd have to apply the style individually to the <option> tags
you desire. Doing that will put a class attribute into those tags (<option
class="myBoldStyle">).


David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net

Actually, I meant:

I have a form.

In that form, I have a drop down list of options.

Those options have explanatory text; i.e: Option One: Red

I would like the text "Option One" to be bold.

Any ideas anyone?

"David Stiller" <stiller-NO-SPAM- (AT) quip (DOT) net> wrote

Do you mean a combo box (in other words, the control rendered by a
form's <select> and <option> tags)? If so, CSS may be your best bet. You
can create styles via Dreamweaver's interface or on your own (they're just
text files, like HTML). You can create an element selector that bolds all
option> tags or a class selector that styles specifiy <option> tags -- in
which case you'd have to apply the style individually to the <option> tags
you desire. Doing that will put a class attribute into those tags
(<option
class="myBoldStyle">).


David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net

You can make Option One: Red be bold, but you cannot make only Option One
be.

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"Rachael Caldwell" <nospam (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote

Actually, I meant:

I have a form.

In that form, I have a drop down list of options.

Those options have explanatory text; i.e: Option One: Red

I would like the text "Option One" to be bold.

Any ideas anyone?

"David Stiller" <stiller-NO-SPAM- (AT) quip (DOT) net> wrote in message
news:cmtfeb$jeh$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Do you mean a combo box (in other words, the control rendered by a
form's <select> and <option> tags)? If so, CSS may be your best bet.
You
can create styles via Dreamweaver's interface or on your own (they're
just
text files, like HTML). You can create an element selector that bolds
all
option> tags or a class selector that styles specifiy <option> tags --
in
which case you'd have to apply the style individually to the <option
tags
you desire. Doing that will put a class attribute into those tags
(<option
class="myBoldStyle">).


David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net

Murray,

Sure she can ... using classes. Unless I still don't understand what
"drop down list of options" means. (Not a <select>/<option> block?)


David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net

David:

There is no way to style the text within an option other than by stying the
entire option. Geddit?

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"David Stiller" <stiller-NO-SPAM- (AT) quip (DOT) net> wrote

Murray,

Sure she can ... using classes. Unless I still don't understand what
"drop down list of options" means. (Not a <select>/<option> block?)


David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net

Aha. Thought she meant Option One bold, Option Two italic, Option three
green, etc.

Stand under ya completely now.


David
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<LOOKOUT BELOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!>

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"David Stiller" <stiller-NO-SPAM- (AT) quip (DOT) net> wrote

Aha. Thought she meant Option One bold, Option Two italic, Option
three green, etc.

Stand under ya completely now.


David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net

yep, that's it! How can I do it?

"David Stiller" <stiller-NO-SPAM- (AT) quip (DOT) net> wrote

Murray,

Sure she can ... using classes. Unless I still don't understand what
"drop down list of options" means. (Not a <select>/<option> block?)


David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net

Sorry, Rachael,

I believe now that I misunderstood what you were looking for. Murray
clarified for me -- unless he read it wrong, too -- that you're hoping to
have some words in a given choice display one style, but other words in the
same choice display another.

Example:
Listbox ...
Choice A: apples
Choice B: pears
Choice C: oranges
.... where "Choice A" appears as bold, say, but "apples" does not.

That scenario is not possible with HTML. If, on the other hand, you
mean ...

Listbox ...
Choice A: apples
Choice B: pears
Choice C: oranges

.... where "Choice A: apples" is bold, "Choice B: pears" is red, and "Choice
C: oranges" is, say, italic, then that is something possible with CSS.


David
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