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Jun 02.2004

I’ve done a bit of searching and come up with a few threads on changing the background color of an option in a select box but nothing on how one might be able to change the font style on a per option basis.

I am currently using the following set, which works fine for coloring but if I add font-weight:bold; into the select.highlight selector it does nothing (it still colors the options but does not make the text bold)

[code=php]
<style type=”text/css”>
select {
width:100px;
}

select.highlight {
background-color:red;
}
</style>

<select name=”choos”>
<option class=”highlight” value=”1″>One</option>
<option value=”2″>Two</option>
<option class=”highlight” value=”3″>Three</option>
<option value=”4″>Four</option>
</select>
[/code]

Any ideas? Answers on a postcard ?

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@JayDieJun 02.2004 — I guess you can't change the font-family or style of an option in a select object... Yes, you can change the (background)color of the option, but you can't change something of the font...
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@FangJun 02.2004 — You do not have class="highlight" in your select.
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@OhLordyauthorJun 02.2004 — Ooops, typo. There was supposed to be a space between the "select" and the ".highlight".
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@FangJun 02.2004 — There is no class in your select. That is why it doesn't work.
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@OhLordyauthorJun 02.2004 — Ah, so you can't change the font on a per option basis?
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@FangJun 02.2004 — &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
&lt;html lang="en"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;DOM table&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;
&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
select {
width:100px;
background:red;
font : bold larger Algerian;
}
option.highlight {
background-color:green;
}
&lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;select name="choos"&gt;
&lt;option class="highlight" value="1"&gt;One&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="2"&gt;Two&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option class="highlight" value="3"&gt;Three&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="4"&gt;Four&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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