I ran into this problem using the select menu, it's about styling it with CSS and jQuery. So far, I have managed to get this result, which I really like: 
still it works fine in mozila, opera, chrome, IE7 +.
This is the source that I have at the moment:
HTML:
<select class="styled" name=""> <option>Select title</option> <option>Mr.</option> <option>Mrs.</option> <option>Miss.</option> </select>
CSS:
select { border: 1px solid #d6d8db; background-color: #ecedee; text-transform: uppercase; color: #47515c; padding: 12px 10px 12px 10px; width: auto; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 10px; } select > option { text-transform: uppercase; padding: 5px 0px; } .customSelect { border: 1px solid #d6d8db; background-color: #ecedee; text-transform: uppercase; color: #47515c; padding: 12px 10px 12px 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; } .customSelect.changed { background-color: #f0dea4; } .customSelectInner { background:url(../images/select_arrows.png) no-repeat center right; }
jQuery consists of two parts: - a plugin - and control code
This can be shown in the FIDDLE I just created: http://jsfiddle.net/s6jGW/1/
Note that there is "External Resources" on the left.
What i want to achieve
Falling down I want to stylize it so that it looks something like on the image (I mean parameters like - height - padding) when hovering: 
I do not want SELECT TITLE to be as a selection option, it should only be the title of the selection window. in this fiddle you can see that this is also an option. http://jsfiddle.net/s6jGW/1/
Simply put, the most important, I VIEW CROSS BROWSER VIEW SOLUTION.
thanks in advance
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