I want to change the background color, font attributes, etc. of the choices
in my DropDownLists. When writing them using HTML SELECT and OPTION tags, I
can do something like the following:
<option
style="font-weight:bold;col or:green;backgr ound-color:purple;"> Displayed
Text</option>
but the ListItem Control does not have a Style property, which prevents me
from doing anything other than specifying the Text, Value, and Selected
properties. Is there any way to format the ListItem Control, such as some
kind of workaround (I know I could write my own Control that inherits
ListItem, but I have very little experience doing this, so I might do it in
the future, but for the moment I am looking for a workaround)?
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Nathan Sokalski nj********@hotm ail.com http://www.nathansokalski.com/ 3  2395 
Afternoon Nathan
Im not sure how frowned upon the practise of stylising individual options
within a select is but:
In the html code you could just add the style tag to the listitem
declaration (sure, its not there in intellisense but it should still show up
in ur broswer):
<asp:dropdownli st id="foo" runat="server">
<asp:listitem value="bar" style="backgrou nd: #000000;">Bar it
up</asp:listitem>
</asp:dropdownlis t>
or if you are using code to add items to the dropdownlist, then you could
add attributes to each listitem:
ListItem li = new ListItem();
li.Value = "bar";
li.Text = "Bar it up";
li.Attributes.A dd("style", "background : #000000;");
Foo.Items.Add(l i);
Also be aware that some css styles will not work when applied to
dropdownlists and possibly their child listitems.
Graham
"Nathan Sokalski" <nj********@hot mail.com> wrote in message
news:uz******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... I want to change the background color, font attributes, etc. of the choices
in my DropDownLists. When writing them using HTML SELECT and OPTION tags, I
can do something like the following:
<option
style="font-weight:bold;col or:green;backgr ound-color:purple;"> Displayed
Text</option>
but the ListItem Control does not have a Style property, which prevents me
from doing anything other than specifying the Text, Value, and Selected
properties. Is there any way to format the ListItem Control, such as some
kind of workaround (I know I could write my own Control that inherits
ListItem, but I have very little experience doing this, so I might do it
in the future, but for the moment I am looking for a workaround)?
--
Nathan Sokalski
nj********@hotm ail.com
http://www.nathansokalski.com/
you can do it using a style sheet like this:
<html>
<head>
<style>
..DropDownList option
{
font-weight:bold;col or:green;backgr ound-color:purple;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form runat="server">
<asp:DropDownLi st id="DropDownLis t1" runat="server"
CssClass="DropD ownList"></asp:DropDownLis t>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Nathan Sokalski wrote: I want to change the background color, font attributes, etc. of the choices
in my DropDownLists. When writing them using HTML SELECT and OPTION tags, I
can do something like the following:
<option
style="font-weight:bold;col or:green;backgr ound-color:purple;"> Displayed
Text</option>
but the ListItem Control does not have a Style property, which prevents me
from doing anything other than specifying the Text, Value, and Selected
properties. Is there any way to format the ListItem Control, such as some
kind of workaround (I know I could write my own Control that inherits
ListItem, but I have very little experience doing this, so I might do it in
the future, but for the moment I am looking for a workaround)?
Nathan, this is a known problem with ListControls in ASP.NET 1.x. Check
oiut this article for a discussion as to WHY and a potential workaround.
(Although if all you want to do is styling, then the solution posted
by ne**********@gm ail.com is probably easier than my workaround at the
article below...)
ListControl Items and Attributes http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/091405-1.aspx
Happy Programming!
--
Scott Mitchell [ASP.NET MVP] mi******@4GuysF romRolla.com http://www.4GuysFromRolla.com/ScottMitchell This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics | |
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