scriptygoddess

1 | blake

March 16th, 2003 at 11:17 am

i use several drop down form elements to jump around from photo to photo in my gallery and while everything works great i am killing myself trying to figure out how to get the select box wider. there doesn't appear to be a way to specify the width.

i've tried making the initial selection longer, specifying width, cols, etc and nothing seems to work – many of the titles still appear clipped.

does anyone have a clue how to change the width of this specific form element? i ask here because i'm thinking it has something to do with the way the movabltype tags are processed…

the code i use is:
<form>
<select onChange="document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;" class="jumpbox">
<option value="">chronological archives…</option>
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Individual">
<option value="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></option>
</MTArchiveList>
</select>
</form>

2 | Scott

March 16th, 2003 at 3:15 pm

i included the following in my CSS file. The width:140 specifies how wide the jump box should be. if you want to have different width or styles you can call an class you want (notice how the sample code has class="jumpbox")

select.jumpbox {
background-color: #eee;
color: #000;
font-size: 9pt;
text-decoration: none;
width: 140;

3 | ben

March 18th, 2003 at 6:49 pm

I would like the archived page to come up in a pop up window. Any way that can be combined with the drop-down jumpbox? I've tried a few alternatives, but can't seem to get it right…. Appreciate any hint in the right direction!

4 | Robin

April 18th, 2003 at 8:30 am

Oh, I ao so excited, I used the same code to create a drop down box of my categories as well!

I love saving the space!

<form name="jump2">
<select name="myjumpbox"
OnChange="document.location=jump2.myjumpbox.options[selectedIndex].value">
<option selected>Please Select…</option>
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Category">
<option value="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></option>
</MTArchiveList>
</select>
</form>

5 | Mariela

June 26th, 2003 at 11:33 am

Thank you all so very much. I'm going to use this for my monthly archives and catagoreis.

6 | george

September 17th, 2003 at 9:30 pm

just wandering ,how would this work of you use php and mysql. How would you make a dropdown menu.

7 | The Realm of Chadness

August 17th, 2003 at 5:46 pm

A Couple Changes
As you may have noticed, I condensed the monthly and category archives into drop-down boxes to save some space on

8 | my:dentity

September 28th, 2003 at 12:33 pm

Movable Type Enhancements
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9 | 布拉格的春天 - Frey 的網路誌

May 3rd, 2004 at 7:47 pm

分月彙整改為下拉選單
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10 | 布拉格的春天 - Frey 的網路誌

May 3rd, 2004 at 7:47 pm

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  參考了 Scriptygoddess 的文章，將日益增加的分月彙整改成了下拉式的選單，以免版面愈來愈長，大家的臉也…….

11 | /blog

January 12th, 2005 at 7:07 pm

the archives are back
some time ago i deleted the archives in the sidebar, because the were using up too much screen-realestate. since people complained that my archives are hard to grab, i spent 20 seconds implementing a nice trick posted over at…