Re: Word Spacing in a form SELECT element

[Jukka K. Korpela]

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 <optionelements 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.

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[ZZ]

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"
<jk******@cs.tut.fiwrote:

>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 <optionelements 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.

[ZZ]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:27:17 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little"
<lw*****@central.netwrote:

>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"
<jk******@cs.tut.fiwrote:

>>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 <optionelements 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

[Jonathan N. Little]

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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[RW]

ZZ schreef:

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

But not in Opera

--
Rob

[Bergamot]

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.

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Berg