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]

Re: Option Lists

"Andi B" <andi@theblackt ower.freeserve. co.uk> wrote in message news:<blsn6t$12 p$1@newsg2.svr. pol.co.uk>...[color=blue]
> When I create a dropdown option list with the following code:
> [snip code using <select>][/color]

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."
[color=blue]
> I can use the style="backgrou nd-color: cccc98; font-family: comic sans ms;
> color: 006600"[/color]

Remembering that 'comic sans ms' is a Windows font...
[color=blue]
> 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?[/color]

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).

--- Stephen Morley ---

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