How do I style form drop down lists?

Question

I have searched far and wide on the Internet but have not found anything helpful regarding how to style the dropdown portion of a dropdown list in a form. I would appreciate a p

Answer 1

Its possible, but convoluted to say the least. You can't actually style the drop down portion of a drop down list consistantly across different browsers as they all support them in different ways (I mean really varied support).

When I had a problam like this a few months ago, the only solution I found was to, using javascript, convert the drop down list into a ul/li drop down menu, which I could style. Of course there are numerous event that need handling, like selecting a value.

Luckly there's a plugin for JQuery that allows this be a trivial task. (The given Brainfault link for this plugin isn't working anymore.)