I think the problem is fairly obvious here. If you set a static width on the <select> element and the width of the text in the <option> are wider than that, the text gets cut off in IE 6-8. There is no good pure-CSS solution for this that I can come up with or find. It has been tackled with JavaScript a number of ways. Yahoo! has a fix in their libraries. But I’m already using jQuery, didn’t want