Select Tag, How to style select elements Options

[cweb]

Hello.
How do you CSS style select elements? This is all new to me so I apologize if I am not using the correct terminology.

Display select elements using absolute positioning w/the top coordinate set to 0pixels & the left coordinate set to 250 pixels. set the font size to 12 pixels.
This is what I have:

CODE

select
          {
        position:absolute;
            top:0px;
                left:250px;
                font-size:12px;
          }

[pandy]

So what's wrong with it?

[cweb]

So what's wrong with it?

I just wanted to know if that was the correct way to set up the select[i] element.
Thanks you

[pandy]

You can use the CSS checker to see if your syntax is right and your browsers will show you if it works.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator.html

[Frederiek]

FWIW, in my Safari/Mac, the font-size is still 11px, which apparently is the default size for <select> items. If you set the font-size to an option selector, then it becomes 12px.

[Darin McGrew]

And FWIW, 12px is smaller than the minimum font size enforced by my browsers, so I'll see the minimum font size instead.