IE6 IE7 css border on select element

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Does anyone have a solution for styling the borders of  select  elements in Internet Explorer using CSS

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I ve worked around the inability to put a border on the select in IE7  IE8 in compatibility mode   By giving it a border as wel as a padding  it looks like something      Not everything  but it s start

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Using ONLY css is impossbile  In fact  all form elements are impossible to customize to look in the same way on all browsers only with css   You can try niceforms though

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You d need a custom-designed select box with CSS and JavaScript   You d need to make absolutely sure it degrades perfectly to a standard select element should a user have JavaScript disabled   IMO  it s just not worth the effort   Stick with font stylings within the select to make it close to your site s design  leave the borders  etc   to the box elements

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It solves to me  for my purposes    select-container     position relative    width 200px    height 18px    overflow hidden    border 1px solid white  important    select-container select     position relative    left -2px    top -2px     To put more style will be necessary to use nested divs

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I ve worked around the inability to put a border on the select in IE7  IE8 in compatibility mode   By giving it a border as wel as a padding  it looks like something      Not everything  but it s start

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To do a border along one side of a select in IE use IE s filters   select required   border-left 2px solid red  filter  progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX -2  OffY 0 color  FF0000     I put a border on one side only of all my inputs for required status   There is probably an effects that do a better job for an all-round border      http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms532853 v VS 85  aspx

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From my personal experience where we tryed to put the border red when an invalid entry was selected  it is impossible to put border red of select element in IE   As stated before the ocntrols in internet explorer uses WindowsAPI to draw and render and you have nothing to solve this   What was our solution was to put the background color of select element light red  for text to be readable   background color was working in every browser  but in IE we had a side effects that the  element where the same background color as the select   So to summarize the solution we putted    select     background-color light-red    border  2px solid red    option     background-color white      Note that color was set with hex code  I just don t remember which   This solution was giving us the wanted effect in every browser except for the border red in IE   Good luck

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The border-style property is a short-hand command to define the border styles of all sides an html element  Each side can have a different style    http   www handycss com tips styling-borders-with-css

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extrapolate it        filter       progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX -1  OffY 0 color  FF0000      progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX 1  OffY 0 color  FF0000      progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX 0  OffY -1 color  FF0000      progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX 0  OffY 1 color  FF0000

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Using ONLY css is impossbile  In fact  all form elements are impossible to customize to look in the same way on all browsers only with css   You can try niceforms though

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It works    Use the following code    lt style gt  div select-container     border  1px black width 200px     lt  style gt     lt div id  status  class  select-container  gt       lt select name  status  gt           lt option value     gt Please Select    lt  option gt           lt option value  option1  gt Option 1 lt  option gt           lt option value  option2  gt Option 2 lt  option gt       lt  select gt   lt  div gt

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Just add an doctype declaration before the html tag  ex    lt  DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD HTML 4 01 Transitional  EN   http   www w3 org TR html4 strict dtd  gt   It is gonna work in JSP files as well   For further info  HTML Doctype Declaration

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From my personal experience where we tryed to put the border red when an invalid entry was selected  it is impossible to put border red of select element in IE   As stated before the ocntrols in internet explorer uses WindowsAPI to draw and render and you have nothing to solve this   What was our solution was to put the background color of select element light red  for text to be readable   background color was working in every browser  but in IE we had a side effects that the  element where the same background color as the select   So to summarize the solution we putted    select     background-color light-red    border  2px solid red    option     background-color white      Note that color was set with hex code  I just don t remember which   This solution was giving us the wanted effect in every browser except for the border red in IE   Good luck

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As far as I know  it s not possible in IE because it uses the OS component   Here is a link where the control is replaced  but I don t know if thats what you want to do    Edit  The link is broken I m dumping the content   lt select gt  Something New  Part 1  By Aaron Gustafson  So you ve built a beautiful  standards-compliant site utilizing the latest and greatest CSS techniques  You ve mastered control of styling every element  but in the back of your mind  a little voice is nagging you about how ugly your  lt select gt s are  Well  today we re going to explore a way to silence that little voice and truly complete our designs  With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS  you too can make your  lt select gt s beautiful    and you won t have to sacrifice accessibility  usability or graceful degradation   The Problem  We all know the  lt select gt  is just plain ugly  In fact  many try to limit its use to avoid its classic web circa 1994 inset borders  We should not avoid using the  lt select gt  though--it is an important part of the current form toolset  we should embrace it  That said  some creative thinking can improve it   The  lt select gt   We ll use a simple  for our example    lt select id  something  name  something  gt     lt option value  1  gt This is option 1 lt  option gt     lt option value  2  gt This is option 2 lt  option gt     lt option value  3  gt This is option 3 lt  option gt     lt option value  4  gt This is option 4 lt  option gt     lt option value  5  gt This is option 5 lt  option gt   lt  select gt     Note  It is implied that this  lt select gt  is in the context of a complete form    So we have five  lt option gt s within a  lt select gt   This  lt select gt  has a uniquely assigned id of  something   Depending on the browser platform you re viewing it on  your  lt select gt  likely looks roughly like this     source  easy-designs net     or this    source  easy-designs net     Let s say we want to make it look a little more modern  perhaps like this     source  easy-designs net     So how do we do it  Keeping the basic  lt select gt  is not an option  Apart from basic background color  font and color adjustments  you don t really have a lot of control over the    However  we can mimic the superb functionality of a  lt select gt  in a new form control without sacrificing semantics  usability or accessibility  In order to do that  we need to examine the nature of a  lt select gt    A  lt select gt  is  essentially  an unordered list of choices in which you can choose a single value to submit along with the rest of a form  So  in essence  it s a  lt ul gt  on steroids  Continuing with that line of thinking  we can replace the  lt select gt  with an unordered list  as long as we give it some enhanced functionality  As  lt ul gt s can be styled in a myriad of different ways  we re almost home free  Now the questions becomes  how to ensure that we maintain the functionality of the  lt select gt  when using a  lt ul gt    In other words  how do we submit the correct  value along with the form  if we are no longer using a form control   The solution  Enter the DOM  The final step in the process is making the  lt ul gt  function feel like a  lt select gt   and we can accomplish that with JavaScript ECMA Script and a little clever CSS  Here is the basic list of requirements we need to have a functional faux  lt select gt     click the list to open it  click on list items to change the value assigned  amp  close the list  show the default value when nothing is selected  and show the chosen list item when something is selected    With this plan  we can begin to tackle each part in succession   Building the list  So first we need to collect all of the attributes and s out of the  and rebuild it as a   We accomplish this by running the following JS   function selectReplacement obj      var ul   document createElement  ul      ul className    selectReplacement        collect our object s options   var opts   obj options       iterate through them  creating  lt li gt s   for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       ul appendChild li            add the ul to the form   obj parentNode appendChild ul       You might be thinking  now what happens if there is a selected  lt option gt  already   We can account for this by adding another loop before we create the  lt li gt s to look for the selected  lt option gt   and then store that value in order to class our selected  lt li gt  as  selected          var opts   obj options       check for the selected option  default to the first option    for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var selectedOpt      if  opts i  selected          selectedOpt   i        break     we found the selected option  leave the loop       else         selectedOpt   0              for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             ul appendChild li          Note  From here on out  option 5 will be selected  to demonstrate this functionality    Now  we can run this function on every  lt select gt  on the page  in our case  one  with the following   function setForm       var s   document getElementsByTagName  select      for  var i 0  i lt s length  i          selectReplacement s i          window onload   function       setForm        We are nearly there  let s add some style   Some clever CSS  I don t know about you  but I am a huge fan of CSS dropdowns  especially the Suckerfish variety   I ve been working with them for some time now and it finally dawned on me that a  lt select gt  is pretty much like a dropdown menu  albeit with a little more going on under the hood  Why not apply the same stylistic theory to our faux- lt select gt   The basic style goes something like this   ul selectReplacement     margin  0    padding  0    height  1 65em    width  300px    ul selectReplacement li     background   cf5a5a    color   fff    cursor  pointer    display  none    font-size  11px    line-height  1 7em    list-style  none    margin  0    padding  1px 12px    width  276px    ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectOpen li hover     background   9e0000    color   fff      Now  to handle the  selected  list item  we need to get a little craftier   ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectReplacement li selected     color   fff    display  block    ul selectOpen li selected     background   9e0000    display  block    ul selectOpen li hover  ul selectOpen li selected hover     background   9e0000    color   fff      Notice that we are not using the  hover pseudo-class for the  lt ul gt  to make it open  instead we are class-ing it as  selectOpen   The reason for this is two-fold    CSS is for presentation  not behavior  and we want our faux- lt select gt  behave like a real  lt select gt   we need the list to open in an onclick event and not on a simple mouse-over    To implement this  we can take what we learned from Suckerfish and apply it to our own JavaScript by dynamically assigning and removing this class in   onclickevents for the list items  To do this right  we will need the ability to change theonclick  events for each list item on the fly to switch between the following two actions    show the complete faux- lt select gt  when clicking the selected default option when the list is collapsed  and  select  a list item when it is clicked  amp  collapse the faux- lt select gt     We will create a function called selectMe   to handle the reassignment of the  selected  class  reassignment of the onclick events for the list items  and the collapsing of the faux- lt select gt    As the original Suckerfish taught us  IE will not recognize a hover state on anything apart from an  lt a gt   so we need to account for that by augmenting some of our code with what we learned from them  We can attach onmouseover and onmouseout events to the  selectReplacement  class-ed  lt ul gt  and its  lt li gt s   function selectReplacement obj               create list for styling   var ul   document createElement  ul      ul className    selectReplacement     if  window attachEvent        ul onmouseover   function           ul className      selHover             ul onmouseout   function           ul className            ul className replace new RegExp   selHover  b                           for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i                  if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             if  window attachEvent          li onmouseover   function             this className      selHover                 li onmouseout   function             this className              this className replace new RegExp   selHover  b                         ul appendChild li       Then  we can modify a few selectors in the CSS  to handle the hover for IE   ul selectReplacement hover li  ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectReplacement li selected     color   fff    display  block    ul selectReplacement hover li selected    ul selectOpen li selected       background   9e0000    display  block    ul selectReplacement li hover  ul selectReplacement li selectOpen  ul selectReplacement li selected hover     background   9e0000    color   fff    cursor  pointer      Now we have a list behaving like a  lt select gt   but we still need a means of changing the selected list item and updating the value of the associated form element   JavaScript fu  We already have a  selected  class we can apply to our selected list item  but we need a way to go about applying it to a  lt li gt  when it is clicked on and removing it from any of its previously  selected  siblings  Here s the JS to accomplish this   function selectMe obj         get the  lt li gt  s siblings   var lis   obj parentNode getElementsByTagName  li         loop through   for  var i 0  i lt lis length  i             not the selected  lt li gt   remove selected class     if  lis i     obj          lis i  className           else      our selected  lt li gt   add selected class       lis i  className  selected                  Note  we can use simple className assignment and emptying because we are in complete control of the  lt li gt s  If you  for some reason  needed to assign additional classes to your list items  I recommend modifying the code to append and remove the  selected  class to your className property    Finally  we add a little function to set the value of the original  lt select gt   which will be submitted along with the form  when an  lt li gt  is clicked   function setVal objID  selIndex      var obj   document getElementById objID     obj selectedIndex   selIndex      We can then add these functions to the onclick event of our  lt li gt s         for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       li selIndex   opts i  index      li selectID   obj id      li onclick   function           setVal this selectID  this selIndex         selectMe this             if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             ul appendChild li             There you have it  We have created our functional faux-  As we have not hidden the originalyet  we can  watch how it behaves  files 4 html  as we choose different options from our faux-  Of course  in the final version  we don t want the original to show  so we can hide it byclass -ing it as  replaced   adding that to the JS here   function selectReplacement obj         append a class to the select   obj className      replaced        create list for styling   var ul   document createElement  ul          Then  add a new CSS rule to hide the   select replaced     display  none      With the application of a few images to finalize the design  link not available    we are good to go     And here is another link to someone that says it can t be done

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i was having this same issue with ie  then i inserted this meta tag and it allowed me to edit the borders in ie   lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE 100   gt

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To do a border along one side of a select in IE use IE s filters   select required   border-left 2px solid red  filter  progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX -2  OffY 0 color  FF0000     I put a border on one side only of all my inputs for required status   There is probably an effects that do a better job for an all-round border      http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms532853 v VS 85  aspx

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extrapolate it        filter       progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX -1  OffY 0 color  FF0000      progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX 1  OffY 0 color  FF0000      progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX 0  OffY -1 color  FF0000      progid DXImageTransform Microsoft dropshadow OffX 0  OffY 1 color  FF0000

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Using ONLY css is impossbile  In fact  all form elements are impossible to customize to look in the same way on all browsers only with css   You can try niceforms though

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Check out this code    hope ur happy      lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 0 Transitional  EN   http   www w3 org TR xhtml1 DTD xhtml1-transitional dtd  gt   lt html xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  gt   lt head gt   lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset iso-8859-1    gt   lt title gt Untitled Document lt  title gt   lt style type  text css  gt   lt style type  text css  gt    margin 0 padding 0   select  font  normal 13px Arial  SansSerif  Verdana  color  black    wrapper width 198px  position  relative   height  20px  overflow  hidden  border-top 1px solid  dddddd  border-left 1px solid  dddddd    Select color  black  background   fff position  absolute  width  200px  top  -2px  left  -2px   optgroup background-color  0099CC color  ffffff    lt  style gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt   lt div class  wrapper  gt   lt select class  Select  gt   lt optgroup label  WebDevelopment  gt  lt  optgroup gt   lt option gt ASP lt  option gt   lt option gt PHP lt  option gt   lt option gt ColdFusion lt  option gt   lt optgroup label  Web Design  gt  lt  optgroup gt   lt option gt Adobe Photoshop lt  option gt   lt option gt DreamWeaver lt  option gt   lt option gt CSS lt  option gt   lt option gt Adobe Flash lt  option gt   lt  select gt   lt  div gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    Sajay

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It solves to me  for my purposes    select-container     position relative    width 200px    height 18px    overflow hidden    border 1px solid white  important    select-container select     position relative    left -2px    top -2px     To put more style will be necessary to use nested divs

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Check out this code    hope ur happy      lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 0 Transitional  EN   http   www w3 org TR xhtml1 DTD xhtml1-transitional dtd  gt   lt html xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  gt   lt head gt   lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset iso-8859-1    gt   lt title gt Untitled Document lt  title gt   lt style type  text css  gt   lt style type  text css  gt    margin 0 padding 0   select  font  normal 13px Arial  SansSerif  Verdana  color  black    wrapper width 198px  position  relative   height  20px  overflow  hidden  border-top 1px solid  dddddd  border-left 1px solid  dddddd    Select color  black  background   fff position  absolute  width  200px  top  -2px  left  -2px   optgroup background-color  0099CC color  ffffff    lt  style gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt   lt div class  wrapper  gt   lt select class  Select  gt   lt optgroup label  WebDevelopment  gt  lt  optgroup gt   lt option gt ASP lt  option gt   lt option gt PHP lt  option gt   lt option gt ColdFusion lt  option gt   lt optgroup label  Web Design  gt  lt  optgroup gt   lt option gt Adobe Photoshop lt  option gt   lt option gt DreamWeaver lt  option gt   lt option gt CSS lt  option gt   lt option gt Adobe Flash lt  option gt   lt  select gt   lt  div gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    Sajay

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As far as I know  it s not possible in IE because it uses the OS component   Here is a link where the control is replaced  but I don t know if thats what you want to do    Edit  The link is broken I m dumping the content   lt select gt  Something New  Part 1  By Aaron Gustafson  So you ve built a beautiful  standards-compliant site utilizing the latest and greatest CSS techniques  You ve mastered control of styling every element  but in the back of your mind  a little voice is nagging you about how ugly your  lt select gt s are  Well  today we re going to explore a way to silence that little voice and truly complete our designs  With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS  you too can make your  lt select gt s beautiful    and you won t have to sacrifice accessibility  usability or graceful degradation   The Problem  We all know the  lt select gt  is just plain ugly  In fact  many try to limit its use to avoid its classic web circa 1994 inset borders  We should not avoid using the  lt select gt  though--it is an important part of the current form toolset  we should embrace it  That said  some creative thinking can improve it   The  lt select gt   We ll use a simple  for our example    lt select id  something  name  something  gt     lt option value  1  gt This is option 1 lt  option gt     lt option value  2  gt This is option 2 lt  option gt     lt option value  3  gt This is option 3 lt  option gt     lt option value  4  gt This is option 4 lt  option gt     lt option value  5  gt This is option 5 lt  option gt   lt  select gt     Note  It is implied that this  lt select gt  is in the context of a complete form    So we have five  lt option gt s within a  lt select gt   This  lt select gt  has a uniquely assigned id of  something   Depending on the browser platform you re viewing it on  your  lt select gt  likely looks roughly like this     source  easy-designs net     or this    source  easy-designs net     Let s say we want to make it look a little more modern  perhaps like this     source  easy-designs net     So how do we do it  Keeping the basic  lt select gt  is not an option  Apart from basic background color  font and color adjustments  you don t really have a lot of control over the    However  we can mimic the superb functionality of a  lt select gt  in a new form control without sacrificing semantics  usability or accessibility  In order to do that  we need to examine the nature of a  lt select gt    A  lt select gt  is  essentially  an unordered list of choices in which you can choose a single value to submit along with the rest of a form  So  in essence  it s a  lt ul gt  on steroids  Continuing with that line of thinking  we can replace the  lt select gt  with an unordered list  as long as we give it some enhanced functionality  As  lt ul gt s can be styled in a myriad of different ways  we re almost home free  Now the questions becomes  how to ensure that we maintain the functionality of the  lt select gt  when using a  lt ul gt    In other words  how do we submit the correct  value along with the form  if we are no longer using a form control   The solution  Enter the DOM  The final step in the process is making the  lt ul gt  function feel like a  lt select gt   and we can accomplish that with JavaScript ECMA Script and a little clever CSS  Here is the basic list of requirements we need to have a functional faux  lt select gt     click the list to open it  click on list items to change the value assigned  amp  close the list  show the default value when nothing is selected  and show the chosen list item when something is selected    With this plan  we can begin to tackle each part in succession   Building the list  So first we need to collect all of the attributes and s out of the  and rebuild it as a   We accomplish this by running the following JS   function selectReplacement obj      var ul   document createElement  ul      ul className    selectReplacement        collect our object s options   var opts   obj options       iterate through them  creating  lt li gt s   for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       ul appendChild li            add the ul to the form   obj parentNode appendChild ul       You might be thinking  now what happens if there is a selected  lt option gt  already   We can account for this by adding another loop before we create the  lt li gt s to look for the selected  lt option gt   and then store that value in order to class our selected  lt li gt  as  selected          var opts   obj options       check for the selected option  default to the first option    for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var selectedOpt      if  opts i  selected          selectedOpt   i        break     we found the selected option  leave the loop       else         selectedOpt   0              for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             ul appendChild li          Note  From here on out  option 5 will be selected  to demonstrate this functionality    Now  we can run this function on every  lt select gt  on the page  in our case  one  with the following   function setForm       var s   document getElementsByTagName  select      for  var i 0  i lt s length  i          selectReplacement s i          window onload   function       setForm        We are nearly there  let s add some style   Some clever CSS  I don t know about you  but I am a huge fan of CSS dropdowns  especially the Suckerfish variety   I ve been working with them for some time now and it finally dawned on me that a  lt select gt  is pretty much like a dropdown menu  albeit with a little more going on under the hood  Why not apply the same stylistic theory to our faux- lt select gt   The basic style goes something like this   ul selectReplacement     margin  0    padding  0    height  1 65em    width  300px    ul selectReplacement li     background   cf5a5a    color   fff    cursor  pointer    display  none    font-size  11px    line-height  1 7em    list-style  none    margin  0    padding  1px 12px    width  276px    ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectOpen li hover     background   9e0000    color   fff      Now  to handle the  selected  list item  we need to get a little craftier   ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectReplacement li selected     color   fff    display  block    ul selectOpen li selected     background   9e0000    display  block    ul selectOpen li hover  ul selectOpen li selected hover     background   9e0000    color   fff      Notice that we are not using the  hover pseudo-class for the  lt ul gt  to make it open  instead we are class-ing it as  selectOpen   The reason for this is two-fold    CSS is for presentation  not behavior  and we want our faux- lt select gt  behave like a real  lt select gt   we need the list to open in an onclick event and not on a simple mouse-over    To implement this  we can take what we learned from Suckerfish and apply it to our own JavaScript by dynamically assigning and removing this class in   onclickevents for the list items  To do this right  we will need the ability to change theonclick  events for each list item on the fly to switch between the following two actions    show the complete faux- lt select gt  when clicking the selected default option when the list is collapsed  and  select  a list item when it is clicked  amp  collapse the faux- lt select gt     We will create a function called selectMe   to handle the reassignment of the  selected  class  reassignment of the onclick events for the list items  and the collapsing of the faux- lt select gt    As the original Suckerfish taught us  IE will not recognize a hover state on anything apart from an  lt a gt   so we need to account for that by augmenting some of our code with what we learned from them  We can attach onmouseover and onmouseout events to the  selectReplacement  class-ed  lt ul gt  and its  lt li gt s   function selectReplacement obj               create list for styling   var ul   document createElement  ul      ul className    selectReplacement     if  window attachEvent        ul onmouseover   function           ul className      selHover             ul onmouseout   function           ul className            ul className replace new RegExp   selHover  b                           for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i                  if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             if  window attachEvent          li onmouseover   function             this className      selHover                 li onmouseout   function             this className              this className replace new RegExp   selHover  b                         ul appendChild li       Then  we can modify a few selectors in the CSS  to handle the hover for IE   ul selectReplacement hover li  ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectReplacement li selected     color   fff    display  block    ul selectReplacement hover li selected    ul selectOpen li selected       background   9e0000    display  block    ul selectReplacement li hover  ul selectReplacement li selectOpen  ul selectReplacement li selected hover     background   9e0000    color   fff    cursor  pointer      Now we have a list behaving like a  lt select gt   but we still need a means of changing the selected list item and updating the value of the associated form element   JavaScript fu  We already have a  selected  class we can apply to our selected list item  but we need a way to go about applying it to a  lt li gt  when it is clicked on and removing it from any of its previously  selected  siblings  Here s the JS to accomplish this   function selectMe obj         get the  lt li gt  s siblings   var lis   obj parentNode getElementsByTagName  li         loop through   for  var i 0  i lt lis length  i             not the selected  lt li gt   remove selected class     if  lis i     obj          lis i  className           else      our selected  lt li gt   add selected class       lis i  className  selected                  Note  we can use simple className assignment and emptying because we are in complete control of the  lt li gt s  If you  for some reason  needed to assign additional classes to your list items  I recommend modifying the code to append and remove the  selected  class to your className property    Finally  we add a little function to set the value of the original  lt select gt   which will be submitted along with the form  when an  lt li gt  is clicked   function setVal objID  selIndex      var obj   document getElementById objID     obj selectedIndex   selIndex      We can then add these functions to the onclick event of our  lt li gt s         for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       li selIndex   opts i  index      li selectID   obj id      li onclick   function           setVal this selectID  this selIndex         selectMe this             if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             ul appendChild li             There you have it  We have created our functional faux-  As we have not hidden the originalyet  we can  watch how it behaves  files 4 html  as we choose different options from our faux-  Of course  in the final version  we don t want the original to show  so we can hide it byclass -ing it as  replaced   adding that to the JS here   function selectReplacement obj         append a class to the select   obj className      replaced        create list for styling   var ul   document createElement  ul          Then  add a new CSS rule to hide the   select replaced     display  none      With the application of a few images to finalize the design  link not available    we are good to go     And here is another link to someone that says it can t be done

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Using ONLY css is impossbile  In fact  all form elements are impossible to customize to look in the same way on all browsers only with css   You can try niceforms though

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As far as I know  it s not possible in IE because it uses the OS component   Here is a link where the control is replaced  but I don t know if thats what you want to do    Edit  The link is broken I m dumping the content   lt select gt  Something New  Part 1  By Aaron Gustafson  So you ve built a beautiful  standards-compliant site utilizing the latest and greatest CSS techniques  You ve mastered control of styling every element  but in the back of your mind  a little voice is nagging you about how ugly your  lt select gt s are  Well  today we re going to explore a way to silence that little voice and truly complete our designs  With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS  you too can make your  lt select gt s beautiful    and you won t have to sacrifice accessibility  usability or graceful degradation   The Problem  We all know the  lt select gt  is just plain ugly  In fact  many try to limit its use to avoid its classic web circa 1994 inset borders  We should not avoid using the  lt select gt  though--it is an important part of the current form toolset  we should embrace it  That said  some creative thinking can improve it   The  lt select gt   We ll use a simple  for our example    lt select id  something  name  something  gt     lt option value  1  gt This is option 1 lt  option gt     lt option value  2  gt This is option 2 lt  option gt     lt option value  3  gt This is option 3 lt  option gt     lt option value  4  gt This is option 4 lt  option gt     lt option value  5  gt This is option 5 lt  option gt   lt  select gt     Note  It is implied that this  lt select gt  is in the context of a complete form    So we have five  lt option gt s within a  lt select gt   This  lt select gt  has a uniquely assigned id of  something   Depending on the browser platform you re viewing it on  your  lt select gt  likely looks roughly like this     source  easy-designs net     or this    source  easy-designs net     Let s say we want to make it look a little more modern  perhaps like this     source  easy-designs net     So how do we do it  Keeping the basic  lt select gt  is not an option  Apart from basic background color  font and color adjustments  you don t really have a lot of control over the    However  we can mimic the superb functionality of a  lt select gt  in a new form control without sacrificing semantics  usability or accessibility  In order to do that  we need to examine the nature of a  lt select gt    A  lt select gt  is  essentially  an unordered list of choices in which you can choose a single value to submit along with the rest of a form  So  in essence  it s a  lt ul gt  on steroids  Continuing with that line of thinking  we can replace the  lt select gt  with an unordered list  as long as we give it some enhanced functionality  As  lt ul gt s can be styled in a myriad of different ways  we re almost home free  Now the questions becomes  how to ensure that we maintain the functionality of the  lt select gt  when using a  lt ul gt    In other words  how do we submit the correct  value along with the form  if we are no longer using a form control   The solution  Enter the DOM  The final step in the process is making the  lt ul gt  function feel like a  lt select gt   and we can accomplish that with JavaScript ECMA Script and a little clever CSS  Here is the basic list of requirements we need to have a functional faux  lt select gt     click the list to open it  click on list items to change the value assigned  amp  close the list  show the default value when nothing is selected  and show the chosen list item when something is selected    With this plan  we can begin to tackle each part in succession   Building the list  So first we need to collect all of the attributes and s out of the  and rebuild it as a   We accomplish this by running the following JS   function selectReplacement obj      var ul   document createElement  ul      ul className    selectReplacement        collect our object s options   var opts   obj options       iterate through them  creating  lt li gt s   for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       ul appendChild li            add the ul to the form   obj parentNode appendChild ul       You might be thinking  now what happens if there is a selected  lt option gt  already   We can account for this by adding another loop before we create the  lt li gt s to look for the selected  lt option gt   and then store that value in order to class our selected  lt li gt  as  selected          var opts   obj options       check for the selected option  default to the first option    for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var selectedOpt      if  opts i  selected          selectedOpt   i        break     we found the selected option  leave the loop       else         selectedOpt   0              for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             ul appendChild li          Note  From here on out  option 5 will be selected  to demonstrate this functionality    Now  we can run this function on every  lt select gt  on the page  in our case  one  with the following   function setForm       var s   document getElementsByTagName  select      for  var i 0  i lt s length  i          selectReplacement s i          window onload   function       setForm        We are nearly there  let s add some style   Some clever CSS  I don t know about you  but I am a huge fan of CSS dropdowns  especially the Suckerfish variety   I ve been working with them for some time now and it finally dawned on me that a  lt select gt  is pretty much like a dropdown menu  albeit with a little more going on under the hood  Why not apply the same stylistic theory to our faux- lt select gt   The basic style goes something like this   ul selectReplacement     margin  0    padding  0    height  1 65em    width  300px    ul selectReplacement li     background   cf5a5a    color   fff    cursor  pointer    display  none    font-size  11px    line-height  1 7em    list-style  none    margin  0    padding  1px 12px    width  276px    ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectOpen li hover     background   9e0000    color   fff      Now  to handle the  selected  list item  we need to get a little craftier   ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectReplacement li selected     color   fff    display  block    ul selectOpen li selected     background   9e0000    display  block    ul selectOpen li hover  ul selectOpen li selected hover     background   9e0000    color   fff      Notice that we are not using the  hover pseudo-class for the  lt ul gt  to make it open  instead we are class-ing it as  selectOpen   The reason for this is two-fold    CSS is for presentation  not behavior  and we want our faux- lt select gt  behave like a real  lt select gt   we need the list to open in an onclick event and not on a simple mouse-over    To implement this  we can take what we learned from Suckerfish and apply it to our own JavaScript by dynamically assigning and removing this class in   onclickevents for the list items  To do this right  we will need the ability to change theonclick  events for each list item on the fly to switch between the following two actions    show the complete faux- lt select gt  when clicking the selected default option when the list is collapsed  and  select  a list item when it is clicked  amp  collapse the faux- lt select gt     We will create a function called selectMe   to handle the reassignment of the  selected  class  reassignment of the onclick events for the list items  and the collapsing of the faux- lt select gt    As the original Suckerfish taught us  IE will not recognize a hover state on anything apart from an  lt a gt   so we need to account for that by augmenting some of our code with what we learned from them  We can attach onmouseover and onmouseout events to the  selectReplacement  class-ed  lt ul gt  and its  lt li gt s   function selectReplacement obj               create list for styling   var ul   document createElement  ul      ul className    selectReplacement     if  window attachEvent        ul onmouseover   function           ul className      selHover             ul onmouseout   function           ul className            ul className replace new RegExp   selHover  b                           for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i                  if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             if  window attachEvent          li onmouseover   function             this className      selHover                 li onmouseout   function             this className              this className replace new RegExp   selHover  b                         ul appendChild li       Then  we can modify a few selectors in the CSS  to handle the hover for IE   ul selectReplacement hover li  ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectReplacement li selected     color   fff    display  block    ul selectReplacement hover li selected    ul selectOpen li selected       background   9e0000    display  block    ul selectReplacement li hover  ul selectReplacement li selectOpen  ul selectReplacement li selected hover     background   9e0000    color   fff    cursor  pointer      Now we have a list behaving like a  lt select gt   but we still need a means of changing the selected list item and updating the value of the associated form element   JavaScript fu  We already have a  selected  class we can apply to our selected list item  but we need a way to go about applying it to a  lt li gt  when it is clicked on and removing it from any of its previously  selected  siblings  Here s the JS to accomplish this   function selectMe obj         get the  lt li gt  s siblings   var lis   obj parentNode getElementsByTagName  li         loop through   for  var i 0  i lt lis length  i             not the selected  lt li gt   remove selected class     if  lis i     obj          lis i  className           else      our selected  lt li gt   add selected class       lis i  className  selected                  Note  we can use simple className assignment and emptying because we are in complete control of the  lt li gt s  If you  for some reason  needed to assign additional classes to your list items  I recommend modifying the code to append and remove the  selected  class to your className property    Finally  we add a little function to set the value of the original  lt select gt   which will be submitted along with the form  when an  lt li gt  is clicked   function setVal objID  selIndex      var obj   document getElementById objID     obj selectedIndex   selIndex      We can then add these functions to the onclick event of our  lt li gt s         for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       li selIndex   opts i  index      li selectID   obj id      li onclick   function           setVal this selectID  this selIndex         selectMe this             if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             ul appendChild li             There you have it  We have created our functional faux-  As we have not hidden the originalyet  we can  watch how it behaves  files 4 html  as we choose different options from our faux-  Of course  in the final version  we don t want the original to show  so we can hide it byclass -ing it as  replaced   adding that to the JS here   function selectReplacement obj         append a class to the select   obj className      replaced        create list for styling   var ul   document createElement  ul          Then  add a new CSS rule to hide the   select replaced     display  none      With the application of a few images to finalize the design  link not available    we are good to go     And here is another link to someone that says it can t be done

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From my personal experience where we tryed to put the border red when an invalid entry was selected  it is impossible to put border red of select element in IE   As stated before the ocntrols in internet explorer uses WindowsAPI to draw and render and you have nothing to solve this   What was our solution was to put the background color of select element light red  for text to be readable   background color was working in every browser  but in IE we had a side effects that the  element where the same background color as the select   So to summarize the solution we putted    select     background-color light-red    border  2px solid red    option     background-color white      Note that color was set with hex code  I just don t remember which   This solution was giving us the wanted effect in every browser except for the border red in IE   Good luck

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As far as I know  it s not possible in IE because it uses the OS component   Here is a link where the control is replaced  but I don t know if thats what you want to do    Edit  The link is broken I m dumping the content   lt select gt  Something New  Part 1  By Aaron Gustafson  So you ve built a beautiful  standards-compliant site utilizing the latest and greatest CSS techniques  You ve mastered control of styling every element  but in the back of your mind  a little voice is nagging you about how ugly your  lt select gt s are  Well  today we re going to explore a way to silence that little voice and truly complete our designs  With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS  you too can make your  lt select gt s beautiful    and you won t have to sacrifice accessibility  usability or graceful degradation   The Problem  We all know the  lt select gt  is just plain ugly  In fact  many try to limit its use to avoid its classic web circa 1994 inset borders  We should not avoid using the  lt select gt  though--it is an important part of the current form toolset  we should embrace it  That said  some creative thinking can improve it   The  lt select gt   We ll use a simple  for our example    lt select id  something  name  something  gt     lt option value  1  gt This is option 1 lt  option gt     lt option value  2  gt This is option 2 lt  option gt     lt option value  3  gt This is option 3 lt  option gt     lt option value  4  gt This is option 4 lt  option gt     lt option value  5  gt This is option 5 lt  option gt   lt  select gt     Note  It is implied that this  lt select gt  is in the context of a complete form    So we have five  lt option gt s within a  lt select gt   This  lt select gt  has a uniquely assigned id of  something   Depending on the browser platform you re viewing it on  your  lt select gt  likely looks roughly like this     source  easy-designs net     or this    source  easy-designs net     Let s say we want to make it look a little more modern  perhaps like this     source  easy-designs net     So how do we do it  Keeping the basic  lt select gt  is not an option  Apart from basic background color  font and color adjustments  you don t really have a lot of control over the    However  we can mimic the superb functionality of a  lt select gt  in a new form control without sacrificing semantics  usability or accessibility  In order to do that  we need to examine the nature of a  lt select gt    A  lt select gt  is  essentially  an unordered list of choices in which you can choose a single value to submit along with the rest of a form  So  in essence  it s a  lt ul gt  on steroids  Continuing with that line of thinking  we can replace the  lt select gt  with an unordered list  as long as we give it some enhanced functionality  As  lt ul gt s can be styled in a myriad of different ways  we re almost home free  Now the questions becomes  how to ensure that we maintain the functionality of the  lt select gt  when using a  lt ul gt    In other words  how do we submit the correct  value along with the form  if we are no longer using a form control   The solution  Enter the DOM  The final step in the process is making the  lt ul gt  function feel like a  lt select gt   and we can accomplish that with JavaScript ECMA Script and a little clever CSS  Here is the basic list of requirements we need to have a functional faux  lt select gt     click the list to open it  click on list items to change the value assigned  amp  close the list  show the default value when nothing is selected  and show the chosen list item when something is selected    With this plan  we can begin to tackle each part in succession   Building the list  So first we need to collect all of the attributes and s out of the  and rebuild it as a   We accomplish this by running the following JS   function selectReplacement obj      var ul   document createElement  ul      ul className    selectReplacement        collect our object s options   var opts   obj options       iterate through them  creating  lt li gt s   for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       ul appendChild li            add the ul to the form   obj parentNode appendChild ul       You might be thinking  now what happens if there is a selected  lt option gt  already   We can account for this by adding another loop before we create the  lt li gt s to look for the selected  lt option gt   and then store that value in order to class our selected  lt li gt  as  selected          var opts   obj options       check for the selected option  default to the first option    for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var selectedOpt      if  opts i  selected          selectedOpt   i        break     we found the selected option  leave the loop       else         selectedOpt   0              for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             ul appendChild li          Note  From here on out  option 5 will be selected  to demonstrate this functionality    Now  we can run this function on every  lt select gt  on the page  in our case  one  with the following   function setForm       var s   document getElementsByTagName  select      for  var i 0  i lt s length  i          selectReplacement s i          window onload   function       setForm        We are nearly there  let s add some style   Some clever CSS  I don t know about you  but I am a huge fan of CSS dropdowns  especially the Suckerfish variety   I ve been working with them for some time now and it finally dawned on me that a  lt select gt  is pretty much like a dropdown menu  albeit with a little more going on under the hood  Why not apply the same stylistic theory to our faux- lt select gt   The basic style goes something like this   ul selectReplacement     margin  0    padding  0    height  1 65em    width  300px    ul selectReplacement li     background   cf5a5a    color   fff    cursor  pointer    display  none    font-size  11px    line-height  1 7em    list-style  none    margin  0    padding  1px 12px    width  276px    ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectOpen li hover     background   9e0000    color   fff      Now  to handle the  selected  list item  we need to get a little craftier   ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectReplacement li selected     color   fff    display  block    ul selectOpen li selected     background   9e0000    display  block    ul selectOpen li hover  ul selectOpen li selected hover     background   9e0000    color   fff      Notice that we are not using the  hover pseudo-class for the  lt ul gt  to make it open  instead we are class-ing it as  selectOpen   The reason for this is two-fold    CSS is for presentation  not behavior  and we want our faux- lt select gt  behave like a real  lt select gt   we need the list to open in an onclick event and not on a simple mouse-over    To implement this  we can take what we learned from Suckerfish and apply it to our own JavaScript by dynamically assigning and removing this class in   onclickevents for the list items  To do this right  we will need the ability to change theonclick  events for each list item on the fly to switch between the following two actions    show the complete faux- lt select gt  when clicking the selected default option when the list is collapsed  and  select  a list item when it is clicked  amp  collapse the faux- lt select gt     We will create a function called selectMe   to handle the reassignment of the  selected  class  reassignment of the onclick events for the list items  and the collapsing of the faux- lt select gt    As the original Suckerfish taught us  IE will not recognize a hover state on anything apart from an  lt a gt   so we need to account for that by augmenting some of our code with what we learned from them  We can attach onmouseover and onmouseout events to the  selectReplacement  class-ed  lt ul gt  and its  lt li gt s   function selectReplacement obj               create list for styling   var ul   document createElement  ul      ul className    selectReplacement     if  window attachEvent        ul onmouseover   function           ul className      selHover             ul onmouseout   function           ul className            ul className replace new RegExp   selHover  b                           for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i                  if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             if  window attachEvent          li onmouseover   function             this className      selHover                 li onmouseout   function             this className              this className replace new RegExp   selHover  b                         ul appendChild li       Then  we can modify a few selectors in the CSS  to handle the hover for IE   ul selectReplacement hover li  ul selectOpen li     display  block    ul selectReplacement li selected     color   fff    display  block    ul selectReplacement hover li selected    ul selectOpen li selected       background   9e0000    display  block    ul selectReplacement li hover  ul selectReplacement li selectOpen  ul selectReplacement li selected hover     background   9e0000    color   fff    cursor  pointer      Now we have a list behaving like a  lt select gt   but we still need a means of changing the selected list item and updating the value of the associated form element   JavaScript fu  We already have a  selected  class we can apply to our selected list item  but we need a way to go about applying it to a  lt li gt  when it is clicked on and removing it from any of its previously  selected  siblings  Here s the JS to accomplish this   function selectMe obj         get the  lt li gt  s siblings   var lis   obj parentNode getElementsByTagName  li         loop through   for  var i 0  i lt lis length  i             not the selected  lt li gt   remove selected class     if  lis i     obj          lis i  className           else      our selected  lt li gt   add selected class       lis i  className  selected                  Note  we can use simple className assignment and emptying because we are in complete control of the  lt li gt s  If you  for some reason  needed to assign additional classes to your list items  I recommend modifying the code to append and remove the  selected  class to your className property    Finally  we add a little function to set the value of the original  lt select gt   which will be submitted along with the form  when an  lt li gt  is clicked   function setVal objID  selIndex      var obj   document getElementById objID     obj selectedIndex   selIndex      We can then add these functions to the onclick event of our  lt li gt s         for  var i 0  i lt opts length  i          var li   document createElement  li        var txt   document createTextNode opts i  text       li appendChild txt       li selIndex   opts i  index      li selectID   obj id      li onclick   function           setVal this selectID  this selIndex         selectMe this             if  i    selectedOpt          li className    selected             ul appendChild li             There you have it  We have created our functional faux-  As we have not hidden the originalyet  we can  watch how it behaves  files 4 html  as we choose different options from our faux-  Of course  in the final version  we don t want the original to show  so we can hide it byclass -ing it as  replaced   adding that to the JS here   function selectReplacement obj         append a class to the select   obj className      replaced        create list for styling   var ul   document createElement  ul          Then  add a new CSS rule to hide the   select replaced     display  none      With the application of a few images to finalize the design  link not available    we are good to go     And here is another link to someone that says it can t be done

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It works    Use the following code    lt style gt  div select-container     border  1px black width 200px     lt  style gt     lt div id  status  class  select-container  gt       lt select name  status  gt           lt option value     gt Please Select    lt  option gt           lt option value  option1  gt Option 1 lt  option gt           lt option value  option2  gt Option 2 lt  option gt       lt  select gt   lt  div gt

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From my personal experience where we tryed to put the border red when an invalid entry was selected  it is impossible to put border red of select element in IE   As stated before the ocntrols in internet explorer uses WindowsAPI to draw and render and you have nothing to solve this   What was our solution was to put the background color of select element light red  for text to be readable   background color was working in every browser  but in IE we had a side effects that the  element where the same background color as the select   So to summarize the solution we putted    select     background-color light-red    border  2px solid red    option     background-color white      Note that color was set with hex code  I just don t remember which   This solution was giving us the wanted effect in every browser except for the border red in IE   Good luck

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i was having this same issue with ie  then i inserted this meta tag and it allowed me to edit the borders in ie   lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE 100   gt

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You d need a custom-designed select box with CSS and JavaScript   You d need to make absolutely sure it degrades perfectly to a standard select element should a user have JavaScript disabled   IMO  it s just not worth the effort   Stick with font stylings within the select to make it close to your site s design  leave the borders  etc   to the box elements

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The border-style property is a short-hand command to define the border styles of all sides an html element  Each side can have a different style    http   www handycss com tips styling-borders-with-css

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IE  lt  8 does not render the dropdown list itself it just uses the windows control which cannot be styled this way  Beginning from IE 8 this has changed and the styling is now applied  Of course  its market share is rather negligible yet

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You d need a custom-designed select box with CSS and JavaScript   You d need to make absolutely sure it degrades perfectly to a standard select element should a user have JavaScript disabled   IMO  it s just not worth the effort   Stick with font stylings within the select to make it close to your site s design  leave the borders  etc   to the box elements

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You d need a custom-designed select box with CSS and JavaScript   You d need to make absolutely sure it degrades perfectly to a standard select element should a user have JavaScript disabled   IMO  it s just not worth the effort   Stick with font stylings within the select to make it close to your site s design  leave the borders  etc   to the box elements

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Just add an doctype declaration before the html tag  ex    lt  DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD HTML 4 01 Transitional  EN   http   www w3 org TR html4 strict dtd  gt   It is gonna work in JSP files as well   For further info  HTML Doctype Declaration

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IE  lt  8 does not render the dropdown list itself it just uses the windows control which cannot be styled this way  Beginning from IE 8 this has changed and the styling is now applied  Of course  its market share is rather negligible yet

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