I am not sure if this will work with ASP.NET control but it works for HTML dropdown control.

<SELECT style="WIDTH: 211px">
 <OPTION value="A" selected>A</OPTION>
 <OPTION value="B" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: blue">B</OPTION>

>Jayesh,
>
>Sorry - webform.
>
>Have any examples of that?
>
>Doug
>
>>Winform or Webform?
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>>If it's a winform, get ready to do some serious GDI manipulations...here is a link that will help..
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>>http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/vsnetcombobox.asp
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>>All,
>>
>>I have a DropDownList which will be will hold the names of Pantone Colors for printing. How can I change the background color of each column in the dropdown to correspond to color it represents? Am I able to do this? The values of the Pantone colors are 6 character hex strings.
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>>Thanks,
>>Doug
>Jayesh Patel, MCSD
>Hackensack NJ.