[Carp]

is there possibility to design dropdown menus with css? yes, i know i can make them custom color and size etc. ( in IE). But is there ANY way to make every row look different?

maybe this helps to get what i keep in mind:

<select>
<option>kala</option>
<option><span class="asd"><strong>saba</strong></span></option>
</select>

html/css specs says that last tags rules over, put i tried and it doesn't work.

yes, it's stupid idea and it should not work, but maybe there's ....

[Carp]

hehe, it maked dropdown menu from my code

here's simplified sample:

(select)
(input)KALA(/input)
(input)(span class="fafa")(strong)SABA(/stong)(/span)(/input)
(/select)

[redJag]

If you gave each "row" its on ID then you could modify each one with CSS. This would give you the effect you want but it would seem tedious to me. If you just want to alternate between two colors then make two CSS classes and alternate the classes on the rows. This sounds like a better choice to me.

[Millennium]

Originally posted by redJag:
If you gave each "row" its on ID then you could modify each one with CSS. This would give you the effect you want but it would seem tedious to me. If you just want to alternate between two colors then make two CSS classes and alternate the classes on the rows. This sounds like a better choice to me.

What RedJag said. You don't need the "fafa" span either; you can put the "fafa" class directly on the option tag.

What I would do is this: determine what most of the options are going to look like. Style option tags like that. Then use classes or ID's to override that for specific options.

[Carp]

Originally posted by Millennium:
What RedJag said. You don't need the "fafa" span either; you can put the "fafa" class directly on the option tag.

What I would do is this: determine what most of the options are going to look like. Style option tags like that. Then use classes or ID's to override that for specific options.

yes, i know how exact code must be, it it don't work like it have to (only browser to show this is IE for PC). Can you write those lines to me here what you ment?

[philzilla]

is this any help?

[Millennium]

Originally posted by philzilla:
is this any help?

I don't think that's what he's looking for. It sounds to me as though he's trying to style a form control.

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by philzilla:
is this any help?

THANKS A LOT, Philzilla...

Just out of curiosity I followed the link and then spent the next 3 hours learning stuff instead of doing work...

Some really tasty stuff actually. My next major site may have a whole radical new structure to it because of those links...

Cheers!

[philzilla]

w00t!

there's some amazingly cool stuff at that site. i found it a year or so ago. love it. 'kin nerds

[ameat]

Originally posted by philzilla:
w00t!

there's some amazingly cool stuff at that site. i found it a year or so ago. love it. 'kin nerds

...i too am grateful for that link.

[Millennium]

Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
THANKS A LOT, Philzilla...

Just out of curiosity I followed the link and then spent the next 3 hours learning stuff instead of doing work...

Some really tasty stuff actually. My next major site may have a whole radical new structure to it because of those links...

evolt is cool for learning stuff. If you really want to push the envelope, you might want to consider Eric Meyer's CSS-Edge, but be warned: it pushes the envelope so far that a lot of the stuff doesn't work in IE/Windows, and the current incarnation of Safari only gets about half of it right (though according to Hyatt, most of the remaining issues have already been fixed in WebCore).

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by Millennium:
evolt is cool for learning stuff. If you really want to push the envelope, you might want to consider Eric Meyer's CSS-Edge, but be warned: it pushes the envelope so far that a lot of the stuff doesn't work in IE/Windows, and the current incarnation of Safari only gets about half of it right (though according to Hyatt, most of the remaining issues have already been fixed in WebCore).

You're not wrong. The stuff there, and the other articles at BlueRobot about dynamic width, 3 column layouts in pure CSS WITHOUT javascript hacks are great (although a slight deduction for the crazy CSS hack you have to perform to make it all work).

One thing I'm really stuck on, though. You know how you can have a table cell on the left filled with, say, #505050 and one on the right with #999999. If the contents of either cell are deeper than the other, the grey backgrounds of both will continue to the same depth.

But with DIVs, I've never been able to achieve this - they just stop dead at the end of the content. I've tried setting the height to a % - doesn't work consistently. I've tried having a container DIV, with a float and a flexible-width DIV inside. That kind of works, but for a 3+ column layout you're S.O.L if you want to set differing backgrounds for them and still have them end at the same depth.

Unless there's a bright spark out there who can enlighten me? Please?

[der Kopf]

Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
But with DIVs, I've never been able to achieve this - they just stop dead at the end of the content. I've tried setting the height to a % - doesn't work consistently. I've tried having a container DIV, with a float and a flexible-width DIV inside. That kind of works, but for a 3+ column layout you're S.O.L if you want to set differing backgrounds for them and still have them end at the same depth.

I can't enlighten you, but I've run (I think at least, if I understand you fully) into the same problem. After reading around the web and w3c all these admonitions to stop using tables for layout, I tried going css, but this is the biggest thing holding me back. The sorry way many browser treat DIVs and content-width. Even trying through setting everything from the outer box to zero (padding especially, and border) and everything from the inner box to full (or 100) or whatever. It doesn't work like the specification makes you think it should. Back to some hacking for now, if I find something, I'll let you know.

Does anybody know to what degree the BODY element is recognised as THE containing box of all other elements in a page? (I mean, does it have the same 'status', importance, ... as say, a TD cell, or something).