TOPIC: Problems with dropdown width and IE

Hi, anybody solved the problem with custom field dropdown lists not being wide enough to show all the selection texts when a user uses IE as the browser? I know there is some css and javascript code out there but has anyone implemented such in DT Register and how?

Cheers, Ben

The dropdown width size is in pixels so you just need to set the width to a larger number and you'll be fine. Setting it to something like 10 isn't going to show anything. This is mentioned in the video tutorials.

Hello, yes but the max size is 255 which is not enough for this use (each class must inccluda day and time in its name). The problem with IE compared to Firefox/Chrome/Opera is as you surely know that IE does not grow the row width for dropdown list according to the contents when clicking on the list whereas the other browsers manage this all right.

Well I took to the easy solution and changed the jos_dt_register_fields field_size from tinyint to smallint which gives 65535 as the highest value instead of 255. Not very pretty in firefox etcetera but at least anyone can now read the rows.