Is it possible to have IE show different font styles for individual options in a <select> ?

[Glen K]

The following works in Firefox buy not in Internet Explorer:

<select>
<option> option1 </option>
<option style="font-style: bold"> option2 </option>
</select>

Are there any workarounds to allow IE to show different font styles for
different elements in a select list?

[Jim Moe]

Glen K wrote:

The following works in Firefox buy not in Internet Explorer:

<select>
<option> option1 </option>
<option style="font-style: bold"> option2 </option>
</select>

Are there any workarounds to allow IE to show different font styles for
different elements in a select list?

Yes. Use "font-weight".
There is no "bold" attribute for "font-style" in CSS. Firefox must be
guessing what you really meant.

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[Glen K]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:57:25 -0700, Jim Moe wrote:

Glen K wrote:

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Yes. Use "font-weight".
There is no "bold" attribute for "font-style" in CSS. Firefox must be
guessing what you really meant.

That doesn't work either. As far as I know IE doesn't support
anything other than color for the <option> tag.

[Fatalis Erratum]

These two articles describe what you're looking for:
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-S...ng-the-Select/
http://easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect/

- Fatalis Erratum

[Glen K]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:17:46 -0700, Fatalis Erratum wrote:

These two articles describe what you're looking for:
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-S...ng-the-Select/
http://easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect/

- Fatalis Erratum

Thanks, I'll give these a try. Although I am still worried about
performance issues since some of my list boxes are going to have a large
number of options and I'm guessing the browser's built in <select> is
going to perform better than one implemented in JavaScript.