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

u can simply use "width" attribute of "style" to change the length of the dropdown box

<select class="my_dropdown" id="my_dropdown" style="width:APPROPRIATE WIDTH IN PIXLES">
<option value="1">LONG OPTION</option>
<option value="2">short</option>
</select>

e.g.

style="width:200px"