Dave,

Many have asked. I'm not sure anyone has found the answer.

Put the php code in a div where class=side, like this:

<div class="side">
<?php include "http://blogroll.mu.nu/pulldown.i"; ?>
</div>

That should make it the same font as your blogroll.

Hi Dave! If you're the same Dave that emailed me recently, I sent you a few emails. If not - oopsie.

You can modify the font in the say that David (the above David) suggested, but don't forget to change the font of the "side" attribute in your stylesheet.

If that doesn't work, you can jimmy it up a bit in your main index. Let me know if you need to do so, and we'll chat;-)

David & Sadie,

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Your advice solved my problem, and also taught me something more about the care & feeding of a blogsite!

I appreciate both of your inputs very, very much!

(And Sadie: you and I emailed a bit the first week in May. You solved a problem with my blog then, too . . . somehow you keep rescuing me . . .

Aackk! Last night it worked. The fony was fine, the pulldown menu was behaving nicely. But this morning, the blasted thing is back to the way it was before I added the code!

What is going on? Help?

"fony"="font" in my previous post . . .

Speaking of Pull-Down MuNu blogrolls........

How come mine hasn't automatically updated to included our newest addition to the family? I thought it specifically said something along the lines of "now fixed to auto-update" at the top of the "pull down blog roll" code on this page?

Evidently I'm suffering from a severe case of cluelessness. I figured out the problem.

Please disregard my previous two comments.

Or, as Roseanna Roseanna Danna would say, . . . "Nevermind . . ."

Indeed. Never forget to feed the blog, but try not to do so after midnight;-)

As if I'm one to talk....

Hmmm...and if that has no effect at all? (Other ideas, things to look for?)

When I fixed my pull-down menu problem using tips provided by David and Sadie (above), I was using my wife's laptop.

The next morning when I posted my panicked comment about the problem coming back, I was on my desktop computer.

I found that my browser settings were the cause of my grief (I was using larger fonts in both the IE 6 browser, and the XP OS desktop settings).

Now you know the source of my shame . . .

Interesting. I'm looking at your blog in IE6, Dave, and I see no difference in the size of the text in the drop-down list. Changing the text size settings appears to have no effect at all.

I don't understand . . . The text size and font style both changed when I made those changes to my templates. I had to tweak IE6 on my desktop before it (my desktop's browser) recognized the changes, though.

I'll have to look at it with different browsers, though, to see if it is displaying consistently across browser applications . . .

Or maybe you were looking at a cached page?

As far as I can remember when trying to resolve this issue for myself some time ago... Firefox and other standards-compliant browsers will apply your div formatting to the elements of the pulldown menu just fine, but IE completely barfed - essentially ignoring the formatting within the list.

When I get home, I'll see if I can find my notes, but I was never able to resolve it, even with lots of others helping tackle it.

Paul

Looking in IE and Netscape 8, that does indeed to appear to be the case -- Netscape sizes the drop-down while IE leaves it one size.