[WEB4LIB] width of box in pull down menus

[Thomas Dowling]

This can be suggested with CSS; to my knowledge, only IE4 and IE5
understand the width property for form inputs, though.

Attempts to get a uniform width through character padding are doomed to
failure, since the font used for button labels on different platforms
varies--and having buttons almost but not quite the same width looks worse
than having them each at their own natural width (strange to say, but this
aesthetic problem drives me away from the Lotsa Drop-Downs page design
more than anything else).


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Drew <drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 3:51 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] width of box in pull down menus


> As you may well know, I am in the middle of redesigning our main library
> webpage with some redesigning of other pages to follow.
> The basis of the new design is a series of pull down menus.  I would
like to
> see the width of the menus to be the same.  Is there any way of doing
that
> short of padding them with some character such as a hyphen?  Also, is it
> possible to bold text with in a pull down menu?
>
> The URL of the test page is:
> http://www.morrisville.edu/pages/library/b.htm
>
> I have made several changes based on input from many of you.  Thanks for
> your help and suggestions.
>
>