[thelist] Setting Size (Length) of <OPTION> Tag

hi jeff

>  <select>
>    <option value="">Choose One</option>
>    <option value="1">this</option>
>    <option value="1">  is</option>
>    <option value="1">  a</option>
>    <option value="1">  wrapped</option>
>    <option value="1">  option</option>
>  </select>

whoa, good one, never thought of that

> you should also come up with some way to identify a line
> as being the start and the wrapped lines as being part of the start.

just curious, but why?

> my vote for the sake of usability is to simply shorten
> your option tags to options that are more concise.

+1

in webreference's "hiermenus" (http://webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/),
wrap is a "feature"

you have to specify a pixel width for the menus (i wish you could set a
width for each level, but no, one pixel value fits all...)

any option text longer than this pixel width, it gets wrapped

now, to me wrap is unattractive, so i make a special effort to remove
extraneous words, words that aren't needed (ha ha, words that aren't
needed, get it? extraneous?  oh, never mind...)

<tip>
it's quite effective if you can cut a seven-word link down to two,
*especially* if you have the authority to go to the page in question and
change its <title> and <h1> from seven words to two as well...
</tip>

i am really in love with those hiermenus

they completely kill the last reason for frames in our intranet, that the
nav bar be accessible on screen at all times (as if that was ever a good
reason to start with...)

once you've used a nav scheme implemented in hiermenus, you won't care that
they have scrolled off the top of the page you've been reading, you will
make it your business to learn ctrl-home to get back to the top of a page,
just so you can use those hiermenus again...


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