style select option using css

Question

I\'m trying to style a select option list using CSS. I want more padding between the times of the list because the seem squashed together. I\'ve tried adding padding to the

Answer 1

I changed a few things in your code sample there. But it looks to me like the best you're going to get is a colour change of the selected element:

http://jsfiddle.net/GUdhc/25/

If you then click on something in the box you'll see the "selected" ones are in a red font. You can't change the padding, margin or others that way.

You may need to use javascript "OnChange" to do this but that's beyond me.