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Tony the Pony
Tony the Pony

Reputation: 41347

Styling `<select>` in Internet Explorer

Any way to customize the border and background of an HTML <select> in IE? I can style the border with simple CSS in Firefox, but apparently not in IE.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 17761

Answers (2)

Faizan Noor
Faizan Noor

Reputation: 1

Include these tags in your code:

<head>
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
</head>

This will resolve issues related to Internet Explorer.

Upvotes: -3

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354386

IE is most likely in quirks mode. Previous versions of IE didn't draw the select element themselves and thus it couldn't be styled properly (as well as some z-order quirks), so on IE < 8 you simply can't do it, unless you re-implement something like select in JS. Take a look at the developer tools (F12) to see which browser and document mode IE is in; if it says "Internet Explorer 8" for the Browser mode and not "Quirks mode" for the document mode, you should be ok :)

The following snippet works fine here (IE8β2):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <style type="text/css">
            select {
                border: 1px solid red;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form>
            <select>
                <option>1</option>
                <option>2</option>
            </select>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Upvotes: 9

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