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Any way to customize the border and background of an HTML <select> in IE? I can style the border with simple CSS in Firefox, but apparently not in IE.
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IE is most likely in quirks mode. Previous versions of IE didn't draw the select element themselves and thus it couldn't be styled properly (as well as some z-order quirks), so on IE < 8 you simply can't do it, unless you re-implement something like select in JS. Take a look at the developer tools (F12) to see which browser and document mode IE is in; if it says "Internet Explorer 8" for the Browser mode and not "Quirks mode" for the document mode, you should be ok :)
The following snippet works fine here (IE8β2):
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
select {
border: 1px solid red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<select>
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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