Favored solution to IE dropdown shortcomings
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So, I've been dabbling in web development lately and decided to put drop down boxes in a header of a gridview in asp. One problem: since the gridview has 13 columns, I need to keep the drop down fairly small. Firefox takes this rather well. It expands the options inside the select despite the set width of their parent. IE7, on the other hand, isn't smart enough to do this and renders the options with the same width as their parent. That said there are several solutions out there that involve using divs and radials to emulate select box behavior, and from there one could easily emulate drop down behavior. I think I'll take this approach and make a web control that utilizes the technique. But my solutions are overly laborious. I'd like to know what solutions the Code Project would take for these shortcomings of IE.