[thelist] handling long drop down list

[aardvark]

> From: "Gary B. Swanson" <gary.swanson at xwave.com>
[...]
> I am trying to find if there is a way to limit the width of items
> within a drop-down or select list.
> 
> i.e.  limiting the display of the list item, or dynamically extending
> when a longer item appears.  I have thought of limiting the input of
> information to the drop-down, but am looking for another answer.

the select menu's width is determined by the length of the longest 
chunk of text in there...

IE3/win used to do some interesting truncation on some select 
menus...

NN4.x- has problems resizing the menus when you use JS to re-write 
what appears there... often your text gets truncated...

you can use CSS, or even font tags in the case of NN3+, to adjust the 
size of the text... i've never tried clipping or setting an absolute 
width with CSS, though, so i'd be interested to hear if you try 
that...