Resizing the drop down field

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I am trying to edit an existing web page that contains several jump menus but
the size of the fields for some are larger than the others so it does not
appear uniform.How does one resize these fields?
 
I am new to frontpage and though the question is simple could you guide me
here? I have gone into the design view and clicked into the field but i get
arrows on the end and not a resizing point in which i can drag up for height
or sideways for width.
 
Right click on the form field, then under field properties you set the width by the number of
character or number of lines (for textarea field).

You may also be able to modify the width, etc via CSS.

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Thanks Thomas,

I right click on the option 'form field properties' then the drop down box
properties opens up. I do not see field properties but i do see the lists of
choices that can be modified and there is a style whith a format button that
allows a to change the numbering, position etc. One option on right click i
have not done is to manage editable regions by coverting page to a dynamic
web template. Would this do it?
 
Dynamic web template has no bearing on form field size.

Sorry.. the width of the dropdown menu is control by the longest line item within the list of option
values.

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Thomas A. Rowe
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Converting to a DWT will not solve this problem.

Dropdown select fields are as long as the longest option to be selected.
Use CSS to set the width of the dropdown fields.
Example:

<select name="Select1" style="width:100px">
<option>car</option>
<option>bus</option>
<option>telegraph pole</option>
</select

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I had the same problem with drop down menus that didn't match in length.
Since they end up being as long as the longest item, just add spaces to the
drop down menus that are shorter than your longest one, and they will all
look the same....the size of your longest menu.
 
That method will fail if the user changes the font size, unless you use
a fixed width font like Courier. You, the page author, cannot control
the users actions in this regard: you can only suggest the size of the
text.
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Thank you for pointing that out, I never thought about that. I don't even
know what a fixed width font is....does Courier behave differently? It
worked to fix how my pages work, but then that's in my font...I see that now.
 
Every character in Courier has the same width - it's like a typewriter
font. The W is the same width as the I, and spaces are the same width
as any other letter.
Arial and Times New Roman (for example) are proportional fonts - every
character has a different width. The W is much wider than the I, and
spaces seem to have variable widths (compared with the width of the W),
depending on font size.
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