How do I adjust the width of a DropDown <select> box?

Question

I need to adjust the width of a select HTML box without using css, is there a way? I tried size but then it's adjusting the height, and width does nothing? Is there another way?

Answer 1

There is no way to do it in pure HTML as per http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.6. You can set it using the style element, though which is kind of without css in that it is inline.

<select style="width: ....

Answer 2

Add an empty option with enough spaces in it ...

Answer 3

<style type="text/css">     
    select {
        width:200px;
    }
</style>

Does that not work?