Re: Re: Determining number of visible OPTIONs in a SELECT

> Here's what I meant:
>
> If you do something like:
> select.style.fontSize = '12px';
> select.style.height = '50px';
>
> IE 6 will resize the font (ignoring -- or "adjusting" on might say -- your '12px') so that a whole
> number of options fit within the select.  It does this to prevent a partial option from showing at
> the bottom.  You can try this easily.  Change the '12px' to '10px' and the font doesn't change.
> Change it down to '8px' and it finally changes -- but it's probably not actually 8px.  It's whatever fits
> a whole number of options.

Huh.  That's very useful to know.  Kind of irritating, but at least I
can deal with it in the future.  As far as my use-case goes, though,
every SELECT has the same font size, so it's (luckily) not a problem
for me.

Thanks for the clarification,

Ian

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