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stylesheet for combo box

Hi All,
I have one combobox in my form.
The contents are displayed in the following manner in the combobox :

Test1 (AAAAA) -- 11111
Test2 (BBBBBB) -- 22222
Test3 (CCCCCC) -- 333333
Test4 (DDDDDD) -- 444444
Test5 (EEEEEE) -- 555555

..... so on

I want to display Test1, Test2, Test3... in different colors...Similarly "AAAAAA", "BBBBBB", "CCCCCC"...in different color...and "11111", "222222" ...in different color...

Thanks in advance...
Meenakshi Dhar

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MeenakshiDhar

ASKER

Ok is it not possible at all?? I mean any other way to do it.....

smaccari

sam is right, you can only change the color of options tags.
No way to put two different colors in a single option tag.
If you really want to do so, you will have to make your own custom combo-like control with JavaScript/CSS.

sara110

if you fill your data from database and your page is for instance asp you could do like this , and define array of colors and set it for each data which you read from database instead of fixed color which I used in below ( "color:black" )
"color:" & arr(1)

<select size="19" class="MT" name="D1" style="border: 0px solid #285007; padding: 0; background-color: #EEEEEE; scrollbar-highlight-color:#00ff00; scrollbar-base-color:green ; font-weight:bold" >

<%
while NOT RS.EOF%><option
style=<%
"color:black"
value="<%
Response.write "yourvalue"))
%>">
</option><%
RS.MoveNext
WEND
%>
</select>

sara110

then it means you could only have one color for each option as others told u

MeenakshiDhar

ASKER

yes.. sara110 is right...