[thelist] <select> Items

Thu Aug 1 11:22:00 CDT 2002

KOY,

> How can I make one of the items in a Select box bold while the other items
> remain normal ?

    Use style sheets, e.g.:

Within the <head> of your document:

<style type="text/css">
  .SpecialOption {
    font-weight: bold ;
  }
</style>

And within the <body>:
<select>
  <option>1</option>
  <option class="SpecialOption">2</option>
  <option>3</option>
</select>

    Browser support for this will vary. Particularly, IE/Win 32 will only
allow you to apply a unique color or background-color to an option, so you
may want to apply one of those styles, as well, in order to distinguish the
option in a much wider group of browsers.

James Aylard