Drop down box doesn't display properly in Opera or Firefox

[videobruce]

This site;
http://www.ddktele.com/

Using either Opera or Firefox the drop down box at the top of the page (that is suppose to be just a one line reteangle) shows as a tall large retangle instead. It shows WORSE in Firefox. Of couse it displays properly in Idiot Exploiter since that was where it was checked.

I brought this to the attention to the webmaster and his support tech who is very pro M$ (anything else is garbage according to him) and the usual answer is the % of Opera and Firefox users compared to IE users, it isn't worth the time to correct any mistakes validation sites report.

My question is why doesn't it show properly? Where is the problem and how can it be corrected?

[doctorgonzo]

The problem is with this line:

<SELECT NAME="Category" ONCHANGE="GoUrl(this)" size="1" style="width: 270; height: 324; padding-left: 0">

Remove the "height: 324;" portion and it will display correctly everywhere.

And I'm not even a web developer. I'm not sure exactly, but in this case I think that Firefox and Opera are doing the correct thing: the height is set to 324, and so Firefox and Opera are dutifully displaying a dropdown box with a height of 324 pixels. IE is ignoring this, since IE ignores lots of things and doesn't adhere to standards.

[videobruce]

IE is ignoring this, since IE ignores lots of things and doesn't adhere to standards.

Very well said. Chris, are you listening??????

It's not called Idiot Exploiter for nothing.

[doctorgonzo]

Yes, sadly the use of IE generally leads to sloppy code, since IE plays fast and loose with standards.

In this case, I am curious as to how this page was coded in the first place. Somebody must have put that "height: 324;" attribute in there for some reason; it didn't appear out of thin air. Whoever did so either wanted the dropdown box to be that big, or didn't know what they were doing and stuck it in there at random?

[videobruce]

the use of IE generally leads to sloppy code, since IE plays fast and loose with standards.

Just like their O/S's..................
Guess I'm not the only one that "bashes".