Any way to customize the border and background of an HTML in IE? I can style the border with simple CSS in Firefox, but apparently not in IE.
Include these tags in your code:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
</head>
This will resolve issues related to Internet Explorer.
IE is most likely in quirks mode. Previous versions of IE didn't draw the select
element themselves and thus it couldn't be styled properly (as well as some z-order quirks), so on IE < 8 you simply can't do it, unless you re-implement something like select
in JS. Take a look at the developer tools (F12) to see which browser and document mode IE is in; if it says "Internet Explorer 8" for the Browser mode and not "Quirks mode" for the document mode, you should be ok :)
The following snippet works fine here (IE8β2):
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
select {
border: 1px solid red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<select>
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>