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Background Color in Select Tag Does Not Print or Preview the Correct Color

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Symptoms

In a printout or print preview screen of a Web page, the background color in a Select tag is not printed or displayed.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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More information

The following code does not print or preview the green background inside of the Select box. 
<HTML>
<HEAD>


<BODY bgcolor=yellow>
    Ensure Advanced Tab - print background colors enabled<br>
    View in print preview <br>
    Result: background-color:green is ignored<br>
		   
		<SELECT STYLE=" background-color:green">
			 <OPTION >Print Preview
			 <OPTION > -- OR --
			 <OPTION>Print
			 
		</SELECT>
	
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Keywords: KB257243, kbprint, kbprb, kbdisplay

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Article Info
Article ID : 257243
Revision : 3
Created on : 1/27/2007
Published on : 1/27/2007
Exists online : False
Views : 303