I have a drop-down that lists font families. Like Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, etc. I want to change the font-family of each drop-down item according to the value it represents.
You can do something like this
<select>
<optgroup style="font-family:arial">
<option>Arial</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup style="font-family:verdana">
<option>veranda</option>
</optgroup>
I am not the most CSS wise guy around, but it seems to me that if styling the select element changes the font, as many other answers submit, then a CSS rule referring to selects should work, too.
In my case I set the font-family on html and it applied everywhere except select elements. So I changed the rule to apply to html and select elements and it worked. Tested on Chrome and Edge (although Edge didn't need the select rule to begin with).
Bottom line: html, select { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; }
Try this:
<html>
<head>
<style>
.styled-select {
overflow: hidden;
height: 30px;
}
.styled-select select {
font-size: 14pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;
height: 10px;
}
</style>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="styled-select">
<select>
<option selected="selected" >One</option>
<option >Two</option>
</select>
</div>
</body>
</html>
That's because the select
elements children (option
s) aren't really stylable and firefox seems to be the only browser to ignore that part of the spec.
The workaround is to replace your select
element with a custom widget that uses only stylable elements and perhaps a little javascript for the interactivity. like what's done here: http://jsfiddle.net/sidonaldson/jL7uU/ or http://jsfiddle.net/theredhead/4PQzp/
This should Give you an Idea as to ho to accomplish this:
<select>
<option value="Arial">First</option>
<option value="Verdana">Second</option>
</select>
$(function() {
$('select > option').hover(function() {
$(this).parent().css({fontFamily:$(this).val()})
})
})
JSFIDDLE
What you can do in CSS is what you described: setting font-family
on option
elements, and this has limited browser support. Browsers may implement select
elements using routines that are partly or completely immune to CSS.
The workaround is to use something else than a select
element, such as a set of radio buttons, but it will of course be rendered differently from a dropdown menu. Then you can use e.g.
<div><input type="radio" name="font" value="Tahoma" id="tahoma">
<label for="tahoma" style="font-family: Tahoma">Tahoma</label></div>
...