CSS for individual selectItem tag

[Mee Kar Suu]

I want every option in selecOnemMenu to be displayed row and column as figure1.

Figure1.
myRadio1 myRadio2
myRadio3 myRadio4



<h:selectOneMenu value="#{user.favCoffee1}">
<f:selectItem itemValue="Cream Latte" itemLabel="Coffee3 - Cream Latte" />
<f:selectItem itemValue="Extreme Mocha" itemLabel="Coffee3 - Extreme Mocha" />
<f:selectItem itemValue="Buena Vista" itemLabel="Coffee3 - Buena Vista" />
<f:selectItem itemValue="Buena" itemLabel="Coffee3 - Buena" />
</h:selectOneMenu>


Can anyone help me out in this.

[Tim Holloway]

JSF renders selectOneMenu as an HTML SELECT and the selectItems as HTML OPTIONs. Although the specs say that you can attach CSS to OPTION elements, I know of absolutely no browsers that actually support that ability. Instead, they use the OPTION elements as data-only definitions without regard to display properties.

As far as 2 or more columns in a SELECT dropdown list, that simply isn't supported in HTML. Some of the JSF extension tagsets can do that, but they do it by generating "fake" HTML and using javascript to manipulate it, since the user's browser can't actually get the right display using basic HTML.