Extending combo-box drop-down width w/o increasing combo-box width

[Avinash Tiwari]

Hi..I have a jsp page where the combo-box has very large values in drop-down menu.However I cannot increase the width of combo-box..

But for readability purpose so that the user is able to view the choices in drop-down menu I need to increase the size of drop-down menu even though the visible combo-box size is less than drop-down menu..

Can anybody suggest or help......

[Bear Bibeault]

Firstly, it's not a "combo box". It's a select element. The "combo box" is a desktop control that has no HTML equivalent.

Secondly, you have very limited control of how the select element will appear on the page at the whim of the browsers. You can use the CSS width rule to enforce a width, but beyond that you're pretty much at the mercy of the browsers.