Option Lists

[Andi B]

When I create a dropdown option list with the following code:

<FORM NAME="menu">
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Leap to" onClick="leapto (this.form)">
<SELECT NAME="dest" SIZE=1>
<OPTION VALUE="frame,si tecontent.htm"> Site Content
<option value="frame,te amprofiles/contactlist.htm l">Contact List
<option value="frame,mi nutes/minutes.htm">Mi nutes of Meetings
<option value="frame,so cial/socialevents.ht ml">Social Events
</SELECT>
</FORM>

I can use the style="backgrou nd-color: cccc98; font-family: comic sans ms;
color: 006600" to specify the colour of the background, the font face and
the font colour - but is it possible to also colour the arrow on the right
side of the option box, and if so, what are the commands to colour it?

Many thanks

Andi

[Safalra]

"Andi B" <an**@theblackt ower.freeserve. co.uk> wrote in message news:<bl******* ***@newsg2.svr. pol.co.uk>...

When I create a dropdown option list with the following code:
[snip code using <select>]
That's not guaranteed to be a dropdown list; it's not even the first
presentation suggested in the HTML 4.01 standard:

"Visual user agents are not required to present a SELECT element as a
list box; they may use any other mechanism, such as a drop-down menu."
I can use the style="backgrou nd-color: cccc98; font-family: comic sans ms;
color: 006600"
Remembering that 'comic sans ms' is a Windows font...
to specify the colour of the background, the font face and
the font colour - but is it possible to also colour the arrow on the right
side of the option box, and if so, what are the commands to colour it?

No doubt IE has some proprietary bit of CSS, but even so it's not a
good idea to alter the appearance of 'standard' UI features (by
'standard' I mean standard within that platform).

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