401281 - Should <select> grow on change to longer option?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 429302

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Kweku Ananse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

*{padding:0}

The above css declaration causes drop-down arrow on <select> to cover last letter on longest length option




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Daniel.S]

In Firefox 2, if I select the longest option, it indeed gets truncated. I guess this won't be fixed.

However, Firefox 3 and trunk show a strange behaviour instead: When I go through all options available, the select element's width grows when I choose the longest option.

This is different from other engines where the select element always takes as much space as needed to always make all options visible.