Uppercase Text May Be Truncated in List Box in Internet Explorer

ID: Q163372

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 2.0, 3.0 for Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

Items in uppercase letters in a list box on a form on a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page may be truncated. The same items in lowercase are not truncated.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, upgrade to Internet Explorer version 3.02. To obtain Internet Explorer 3.02, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download/

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Internet Explorer versions 2.0 and 3.0. In these versions, the displayed list box is based on the size of the lowercase characters.

MORE INFORMATION

The following sample HTML code demonstrates the problem described in this article. The 20 lowercase characters are displayed correctly, but the uppercase characters are truncated at about the 17th character.


 <html>

   <body>

   <form>
   <select size=4>
   <option>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   <option>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
   </select>
   </form>

   </body>
   </html>

Additional query words: 2.00 3.00

Keywords : kbenv msiew95
Version : WINDOWS:2.0,3.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type :