Comments on: Setting Height of Selectbox (Combobox) in IE

By: Grossglockner

Grossglockner — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:59:28 +0000

You can work around with the padding assignment on in CSS:

form.register select {
width:250px;
padding: 3px 0px 3px 0px;
}

The only issue I had come along with this is that the select-button won’t scale with the size.
Tested on newest versions of Firefox, IE and Chrome.

By: Przme

Przme — Sun, 08 May 2011 23:33:44 +0000

In IE still doesn’t work. The same problem I found in Google Chrome.

By: Shruthi

Shruthi — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:14:01 +0000

Increasing the font size of combo box in ie7 makes a difference in look and feel of the page.. I wanted to know if there is any other alternative with which the combo box height can be fixed and text written in it also will be same as the text in other boxes..

By: Tony Jah

Tony Jah — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:44:29 +0000

Set Font size to higher pixels

By: John

John — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:23:46 +0000

I also had cross browser success by styling the option element:

option {
height: 20px;
}

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:03:46 +0000

It seems to be related with the IE0s *has-layout* flag.
If found that it works, if the width is given, too.
select {
height: 120px;
width: 120px;
}