Annoyances: IE CSS, Firefox XSL
geoffoliver - December 22, 2007
Today I get to complain about *two* browser annoyances :-) First, the IE problem, just because it pisses me off the most...
Here's something I discovered a few days ago. If you set a width on a select box in CSS (style="width: ##px;") and you have an option with text that is wider than the ##px, the text in the "option" tags gets chopped off. In fact, the "option" tags only display as wide as the ##px width you've set. This problem is only in Internet Explorer, of course. Safari and Firefox seem to do what you would expect and show you *all* the text, unless you set a width on the "option" tags, then the text gets cropped. However, IE doesn't respect widths on an "option" tag, so there's no fix AFAIK. Pretty damned annoying, especially when the client needs a select box set to a hard width to fit inside something else. I wasn't able to figure out a solution and it seems to be a
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