How to Increase the Size of an HTML Drop-Down Box
- 1). Create a new HTML page in a text editor or Web design application. Add the code below between the HTML "<body>" "</body>" tags to add a HTML form and drop-down menu to the page.
<form name="form1" method="post" action="example.htm">
<select name="exampleSelect">
<option value="1">Option One</option>
<option value="2">Option Two</option>
<option value="3">Option Three</option>
</select>
</form>
Save the page as "example.htm" and upload to your Web server. View the page in a Web browser, and you will see the drop-down menu is automatically resized to fit the longest option, which is "Option Three." - 2). Add the following code to create a new CSS stylesheet, just above the closing HTML "</head>" tag.
<style type="text/css">
.wide-dropdown {
width: 200px;
}
</style>
This creates a new style class named "wide-dropdown," which sets the width of the element to which it is assigned to 200 pixels. - 3). Assign the new style class to the drop-down menu by changing the HTML select tag to read:
<select name="exampleSelect">
Upload the page to your Web server, and then refresh the page in your Web browser. You will see that the drop-down has a width of 200 pixels.
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