Hey, I just noticed that this: <SELECT STYLE="width: 20px"> <OPTION>This is a wide wide option <OPTION>This is another even wider option <OPTION>Why not go all the way and make a ridiculously wide option </SELECT> will resize the drop-down box of the select correctly, but will not resize the combo itself. The more interesting thing is that layout only allocates 20px of width for it, creating interesting effects... This is even more interesting: <SELECT STYLE="width: 20px" MULTIPLE> <OPTION>This is a wide wide option <OPTION>This is another even wider option <OPTION>Why not go all the way and make a ridiculously wide option </SELECT> First it looks like this puppy has over twenty options in it, but when you click anywhere inside of it, it quickly resizes to the right dimensions. Lastly this: <SELECT STYLE="width: 20px" MULTIPLE SIZE=4> <OPTION>This is a wide wide option <OPTION>This is another even wider option <OPTION>Why not go all the way and make a ridiculously wide option </SELECT> is sized correctly, but as above initially lays out with too many line breaks. There is a scrollbar on the right side, and if you click to select any of the options (at least on Linux), the select is reflowed to look right, but the area where the scrollbar was is not repainted, so a gray box remains. I'll attach a test case...

Could some of the descriptions above have been influenced by bug 16362? I would think the width property should apply to both parts of a non-multiple select (combobox), but I could be convinced of something else...

selects as comboboxes should now obey CSS sizing. I put in a temporary fix into the nsHTMLButtonControlFrame code so it would display correctly also when being explicitly sized.

so... what should we expect? - Nav 4.7: Width is always as long as the longest option - Seamonkey (1999111016 M11 build): Width is 20px until list dropped down - IE 5: Width is always 20px, even when list dropped down Reassigning to a QA contact more familiar with CSS issues.

Nav doesn't obey the CSS width. We decided to have the drop down size to its contents but have the combobox size to CSS. We did this for usability, we didn't care about being different than IE, especially if it is more usable.

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