[thelist] Pull down menus & option truncation
Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)
peter at easylistbox.com
Wed Mar 9 11:12:41 CST 2005
I'm not sure if this will help any, but you can provide a tooltip to show the selected value:
http://tinyurl.com/6kph7
This could easily be extended to show *all* options in the list. Again, I don't know if this helps at all considering your 508 requirements, but I figured it might give you some ideas.
Cheers,
Peter
From: Jono <ox4dboy at comcast.net>
I am working on a site that has pull down menus that need to contain
names of agencies that can get very long. I think I can set a width
for dropdown choices but IE ( AFAIK ) will then truncate the choice's
length if it has to. If I don't set a width, a wide choice may break
the layout due to space constraints. I don't know if it's possible to
force-wrap pull down menu choice lengths, apparently it doesn't work in
IE5.5 or lower?
Any suggestions on how to best handle long names in a pull down menu?
I'd like this to work in as many browsers as possible, and it needs to
be as accessible/508 compliant as possible. I cannot provide a link
yet, everything is still in Photoshop Mockup stage, and I don't want to
mockup something that is not possible in HTML.
Thanks,
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