# Web Developers: Displaying a small drop down box?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-developers-displaying-a-small-drop-down-box/313020>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 18, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-developers-displaying-a-small-drop-down-box/313020 "2005-07-18T19:34:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-developers-displaying-a-small-drop-down-box/313020/1 "2005-07-18T19:34:17Z")

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Hey kids, I am creating a web application and one of teh steps requires me to generate a long list of items with a select box in each row. the standard HTML select box is big and bulky and screws up the spacing of the table. Anyone know how to create a narrower less bulky drop down box within a series of forms?

Looking at the drop downs in the reply window here are close to what I want. Help is appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-developers-displaying-a-small-drop-down-box/313020/2 "2005-07-18T19:49:43Z")

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Eh, nevermind. Turns out the formatting issues wasn’t with the dropdown list size, but instead the annoying wasted space created by a form tag.

Crap, new issue to fix.