Search drop down list - Main Categories in BOLD

[Greg H]

Larry,

Yes, this worked.

Thank You very much for your help.

Greg

[spaceboy]

This is great. I'm trying to do something similar, except I'd like the main category cells be a different background color from the subcats, like this site. (I'm referring to the category drop-down menu on the left.) Their source code looks like this:

<dl class="simpleSearch">
<dt class="label">Search:</dt>
<dd><input type="text" name="keyword" value=""></dd>
<dt class="label">Category: </dt>
<dd>
<select name="category_id" class='vertical-input-dd-simplesearch' >
<option value="" selected>Select a Category</option>
<option value="" class="searchSeparator" > </option>
<option value="32" class="searchCategory" >Autos</option>
<option value="37" class="searchSubcategory" >  Motorcycles</option>
<option value="34" class="searchSubcategory" >  New Cars</option>
<option value="33" class="searchSubcategory" >  Used Cars</option>

I think this format looks really clean. Any easy way to set up css for a dropdown menu like this?

[Greg H]

Unfortunately this does not work in Internet Explorer.

I have read that some versions of explorer don't like some ways of doing this.

eg: <option style="font-weight: bold"

There are ways of having different degrees of BOLD, but I am using the standard bold which should work in all browsers.

Any ideas as to why this wont work in IE?

Thanks

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by Greg H

Any ideas as to why this wont work in IE?

Thanks

Because IE is a non compliant piece of...err..... well you know

Not sure what to tell ya, try searching google to see if you get any hits. If its been done before im sure its been covered somewhere and so have the known issues.