width of box in pull down menus

[peterson, glenn]

We resolved this issue by having the initial item on the menu say "Select a
topic". We then padded out this line with spaces to make it ever-so-slightly
wider than the widest text item among those on our pop-up lists.

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Internet Librarian            http://www.hennepin.lib.mn.us
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>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:50:42 -0400
>From: Bill Drew <drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU>
>To: Web4Lib <web4lib at webjunction.org>,
>Subject: width of box in pull down menus
>Message-ID: <000201be8a9d$e8885560$d951cc88 at morrisville.edu>
>
>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.