Problems with SELECT width

I have set my SELECT dopdown to a max width of 10. I have also set a style of
overflow:scroll;
On Firefox, when I drop the list down it doesn't scroll, but it does make the width of the dropdown the size of the largest entry. This is OK.
But in IE, it doesn't even do that. The dropdown stays the same width of 10 and so I can't read all the entries. What else can I do?
Thanks.

You do not set a width on the box to begin with and it will go to the widest one...
there is not hort. scroll on a select element unless it is a done with layers and javascript...
Now I know you and you like to say well I need to make it be a minimum....
Then you are going to have to play with the values that are enterd and say if any of the options are not over X chars lon then set min width to X.
Eric

You do not set a width on the box to begin with and it will go to the widest one...
But this is not what I want. I want the select box to be a set width. But when I drop the list down, I want to be able to see all the text. In Firefox, as long as I set the overflow:scroll style, I get a good enough result. But in IE I don't.
http://gregg.embeddedthought.com/droptest.html
If you run that in Mozilla/Firefox and then run it in IE, you will see what I mean.

What I was trying to say that did no come out is it will not show up the way you want it to in IE and Opera but will do what you want in Mozilla browsers....
Only way around it for those two is not to set a width or JS
Eric

Look at
http://www.devsoftware.com/dhtmlTest/select.html
The intention for this page was different - I wanted select which supports a tree and drag-and-drop, but you could use the idea and most of the code.

Originally posted by Eric Pascarello:
What I was trying to say that did no come out is it will not show up the way you want it to in IE and Opera but will do what you want in Mozilla browsers....
Only way around it for those two is not to set a width or JS
Eric

That sucks. Thank Eric. However, this statement;
Only way around it for those two is not to set a width or JS
is not true because not setting the width does not do what I want it to do.

What people have done in the past is they detected the browser and if it was they increased the size of it so it showed the values fully when focused...

It is a mess.....

Well, if select does not fit, don't use it.
Use DIV and replicate the select behavior.
Select is inconvinient - for example, if you have a popup div, you have to wrap it into iframe in order to show up on top of select and you cant collapse optgroup, it does not supports drug-and-drop - you can continue the list if you want.
If anybody have time - could you write kind of select replacement using DIV?
You can use example from my site for a start.