<select> only shows first char of selected option

Question

I have a standard select box which I\'m populating using jquery by appending options, but for some reason IE9 only shows the first character of the selected option. Needless

Answer 1

Based on Jim's answer, I pass the drop-down list into this method:

// force redraw to get around bug in IE.
// NOTE that this removes width from the style attribute.
function forceRedraw(jqueryObject) {
    jqueryObject.css('width', 0);
    jqueryObject.css('width', '');  // remove from style tag
}

This works around the bug in IE, and leaves the width of the element where it was before the method was called as long as the width is specified in CSS, not in the style attribute.