Select box and IE6 bug

[qwikad.com]

I know that IE6 is almost gone from the scene, but I just read somewhere that close to 2% of people world-wide are still using it.

This is how our search looks in most browsers:

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But then when it comes to IE6 the select box looks like this:

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I added a line-height and it does have a regular height of 30px, still it stays this way in IE6.

Any ideas how to work around the bug?

Thanks.

[coothead]

Hi there qwikad.com,

you really should ask yourself this question...


What will IE6 users expect the "select element" to look like?

The main concern for that dinosaur should be that it functions
reasonably well, rather than it's aesthetics.

I am unable to test in IE6, but would suggest that increasing
the "font-size" may well prove to be the solution. ;)

coothead

[molendijk]

I wrote something about styling select boxes a long time ago, see this (http://mesdomaines.nu/eendracht/selectboxCrossbrowser2/selectbox.html). You should read IE there as IE6/7.
But, as coothead mentions, why should you bother about IE6?

[qwikad.com]

Thank you for your responses. I didn't realize that ie6/7 are so hard on css. It looks like it's not worth the pain to go through for just one browser (barely used). Thanks anyway.