Making select option text lighter

[durangod]

Hi, i tried this but its not lighter, i have heard that options cannot be changed via css but i dont know that as fact.

The option on the dropdown is disabled but i also want the text "Choose Department" showing in the box at default to be lighter text as well.

not red and no light text

Code: [Select]

option.dim_text {
    font-weight: lighter;
    color: red;  /* this is just to test to see if i have css control or not */
}

If you look you might see some crazy stuff but i am just trying all kinds of things to try to make it work.

Oh well, nothing worked so time to move on to other things...

[Jason Knight]

What you did might work in FF, but in ALL other browsers you cannot style option tags reliably. Last I knew at least. Moving target and all.. A lot of properties will just be flat out ignored.

Styling OPTION is not actually in the HTML or CSS specification, for usability reasons. Thus any attempts to do so is non-standard and unlikely to work.