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April 20, 2005
Cool looking dropdowns
Aaron Gustafson says:
So you’ve built a beautiful, standards-compliant site utilizing the latest and greatest CSS techniques. You’ve mastered control of styling every element, but in the back of your mind, a little voice is nagging you about how ugly your <select>s are. Well, today we’re going to explore a way to silence that little voice and truly complete our designs. With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your <select>s beautiful... and you won’t have to sacrifice accessibility, usability or graceful degradation.
No doubt about it. They are nice to look at, but some testing has show it may not work on all browsers. There seems to be a difference of opinion as Stuart's readers discuss the idea over at the DHTML & CSS Blog Sitepoint blog.
I tried it in Firefox, IE 6, and Opera 7.0 and I agree Opera has problems with it. This might not be such a serious problem. Typically, regular Opera users are quick to download new browser updates and Andy posted a comment claiming it worked on Opera 7.51.
This is the first part of the article and according to Stuart, Aarron will address accessibility issues.
Aaron has made the code available for download if you would like to try it yourself.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at April 20, 2005 07:05 AM
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