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    <p>I have some legacy JavaScript code that dynamically populates a Select Box. In Firefox, it looks fine. In IE7, the layout is wrong (see below). If I re-size the window, it re-renders the select box properly.</p> <p>Here is a screenshot of what it looks like before re-sizing the browser window.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oDlPf.jpg" alt="IE7 SUCKS"></p> <p>Here is the code complete source code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt; Test &lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; &lt;!-- var MyOptions = { "A" : "Option 1 (A)", "B" : "Option 2 (B)", "C" : "Option 3 (C)", "D" : "Option 4 (D)" } var MyForm = { loadSelectBox : function () { dropDown=document.getElementById("my_select_box"); while(dropDown.hasChildNodes()) { dropDown.removeChild(dropDown.lastChild); } var firstOption = document.createElement('option'); firstOption.value = ''; firstOption.innerHTML = 'select a filter'; dropDown.appendChild(firstOption); for (var key in MyOptions) { var option = document.createElement('option'); option.value = key; option.innerHTML = MyOptions[key]; dropDown.appendChild(option); } } } function init() { MyForm.loadSelectBox(); } //--&gt; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;body onload="init();"&gt; &lt;div style="margin:0px 10px 0px 10px; width:98%"&gt; &lt;div style="float:left;"&gt; &lt;select id="my_select_box"&gt; &lt;!-- options go here --&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="float:left;margin-left:25px;"&gt; &lt;input type="checkbox" id="is-foo" style="visibility:visible;"&gt; &lt;label for="is-foo" style="visibility:visible;"&gt;Some label&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="button" value="Submit"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;br class="clear"/&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>What could I do to make this layout properly in IE7? I need the select box to populate dynamically (this is a dumbed-down version of the code; the actual application is obtaining the values from a web service).</p> <p>I tried intializing the select box with a long value (which the JavaScript will discard), i.e. </p> <pre><code>&lt;select id="my_select_box"&gt; &lt;option name=""&gt;Really long value that will be removed but is here for padding.&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; </code></pre> <p>However, this still doesn't look right and feels like a hack. Is there some css that will make the two <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> elements layout nicely?</p>
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