Set width of dropdown element in HTML select dropdown options

Question

I am working on a website that involves automatically populating a select box using a PHP script. This all works fine except the problem is that what I am using to populate

Answer 1

You can style (albeit with some constraints) the actual items themselves with the option selector:

select, option { width: __; }

This way you are not only constraining the drop-down, but also all of its elements.