Set the width of a SELECT form field 1

[nrussell]

Anyone know how to do this ?

I have a page with 3 SELECT form fields on it, all one above the other.
The OPTION elements for each field are populated from a database.
The width of each field automatically gets set to the width of the widest OPTION element.

What I'd like to do is write some JS that resizes the width of the fields to the width of the widest field so they all look neat and lined up - does this make sense ?

Any help with this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Nathan

 

[WildT]

ya it makes sence, its nice that some developers dont only care about the code but what the user interface looks like as well.

with most controls, even if there is not a width property you can still control the width using styles. so instead of using... width="50"... you could type... style="width:50;"

the javascript access for this is ass follows:

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CONTROL_NAME.style.width=YOUR_BIGGEST_LENGTH;

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hope that helps

 

[adam0101]

See thread216-1028716 for more info

Adam

Whatever I feel like I wanna do, gosh!

 

[cLFlaVA]

I would use CSS for this.

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[nrussell]

Thanks to all who replied, and in particular adam0101 !
Cheers guys !
Nathan