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Making selections

Making selections

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Making selections

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- [Narrator] Selections, or select boxes, or select lists are widely used when users have a number of choices, generally more than six that need to be specified on a page. A select list is a form element that allows the user to select one or more options from a range of options. Select lists are created using a combination of the html select and option tags. Select lists can be nested inside a form element or they can stand alone. If we check out the way that the various browsers render select lists, you can see that the treatment is quite different. Even using the same browser but on different platforms, we get different sorts of treatment with how select lists are rendered. - Our goal in this exercise is to customize the treatment of select lists so we have a tighter design and one that's consistent across all of our main browsers. - Ultimately we're going to be changing the default treatment to these downward…

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