I know that I can edit the style of a drop down menu as found on this page (http://www.lissaexplains.com/fun.shtml#drop) but what I need to be able to do it set the it from the CSS. As I have skinned my site, the page can be many different colors. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks
Ruth

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that was rude.

I want to be able to set the colors of the drop down menu from the CSS style sheet rather than hard coding it. I have various layouts that are defined by a CSS style sheet and if the color is coded directly on the index file it won't change from layout to layout.
Ruth

Something like this?

<style type="text/css">
select,input
{
background-color:808080;
color:FFFFFF;
}
</style>

thank Alcy, but
I need to be able to have a different coding on each style sheet. that coding is in CSS but it is hard coded on the page, not on the different CSS style sheets.
Thank you again
Ruth

i don't think its possible..or is it? well..i just hand coded my drop down menu myself..i don't think i'm making sense :S

Perhaps something like this-

<style type="text/css">
.drop1{
font-family: comic sans ms;
color: #FFFF00;
border: outset;
font-size: 12px;
background: #CC99FF;
}
.gobutton{
font-family: comic sans ms;
color: #FF0000;
font-size: 12px;
background: #CC99FF;
}</style>
<form name="gotolocation1" method="POST">
<select name="lissamenu1" class="drop1">
<option value="http://www.lissaexplains.com">Lissa Explains it All</option>
<option value="http://www.lissaexplains.com/cursor.shtml">Lissa's Cursors</option>
<option value="http://www.lissaexplains.com/home">Lissa's Page</option>
</select>
<input type="button" onClick="location = document.gotolocation1.lissamenu1.options
[document.gotolocation1.lissamenu1.selectedIndex].value;" value="Go" class="gobutton">
</form>

generic example o' course. HTH.

a helpful person sent me this. I used this to edit the page how I wanted it
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input, select, checkbox, textarea {
color: #000000;
background: #E6A7DB;
border: 1px #0094CB solid;
font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: 500;
}


This affects the dropdown box and any form boxes you have (search boxes,
comment boxes and fields, and contact sheets).

Border is of course optional. As I said, play around with them. Some of my
styles have "wild" borders (e.g., border: 3px dotted #AEFCD2) and so forth.
So I like to pick up some of my border styles from the blog itself and use
them here.

You don't have to declare your font-family or font-weight if you've declared
them in your body AND if they don't change. I like the input forms buttons
to have slightly smaller text, so that's why I declare them here

Originally posted by PrincessKT
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I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was being rude... is "heck" considered a cussword? In the south, it's basically what makes up our vernacular... I'm sorry... O_o