IE5 + Choice boxes

[Mark]

In IE5 when a java applet is loaded from a cached page choice boxes seem to
resize to only 1 character in size ! This only seems to affect certain builds
of the java virtual machine (including the current one)

Any ideas how to prevent this ?

[Michael Melio]

"Mark" <mre1@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>In IE5 when a java applet is loaded from a cached page choice boxes seem
to
>resize to only 1 character in size ! This only seems to affect certain builds
>of the java virtual machine (including the current one)
>
>Any ideas how to prevent this ?

I had a similar issue. I used the following to overcome it:

Select Media <select name="cboProduct" onchange="javascript:PopulateCartSizeList();"
size="1" style="HEIGHT: 20px; WIDTH: 175px">
<!--Option content "______________________" here for Netscape formatting.-->

<option>______________________</option>
<option>______________________</option>
the underscore character sets the length. You can then load the box with
any data you choose:

function PopulateCartSizeList()
{
var intCartSize = arrCartSize.length;
var intCtr = 0;
var sProduct = document.PartsFilter.cboProduct.options[document.PartsFilter.cboProduct.selectedIndex].text;
//clear options:
document.PartsFilter.cboCartridgeSize.options.length = 0; for (var i = 0;
i < intCartSize; i++)
{
if (arrCartSize[i][0] == sProduct)
{
var optionName = new Option(arrCartSize[i][1], arrCartSize[i][1], false,
false);
document.PartsFilter.cboCartridgeSize.options[intCtr] = optionName;
intCtr += 1;
}
}
document.PartsFilter.cboCartridgeSize.options[0].selected=true
}

Hope you find this useful.
Michael.