How would I control the position of a drop down select menu?

Issue

I have a drop down select menu, and I wanted to know if there is a way to control the way in which the options expand? The default seems to go either way and depends on how many items are in the list.

I would like to prevent the drop down options from displaying up and over the other form fields. When you select 'country' from the list, the menu expands downward (where I want it), but when you select an option from the 'state/region' field that has quite a few different choices (such as the UK) the menu expands up and over the other form fields, something I don't want. Anyway to fix this?

Here is my CSS ----->

#country {
    position:relative;
    background-image:url(../images/drop-down-selector.svg);
    background-position:260px, center;
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
    -webkit-appearance:none;
    -moz-appearance:none;
    box-shadow:0px 0px 0px 1px #b5e7ff;
    border:none;
    outline:none;
    left:2px;
    width:292px;
    height:47px;
    font-size:1.5em;
    font-family:'gotham-medium', arial, sans-serif;
    src:url("http://www.3elementsreview.com/fonts/gotham-medium.otf");
    color:#5fccff;
    border-radius:0;
}

#state {
    position:relative;
    background-image:url(../images/drop-down-selector.svg);
    background-position:260px, center;
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
    -webkit-appearance:none;
    -moz-appearance:none;
    box-shadow:0px 0px 0px 1px #b5e7ff;
    border:none;
    outline:none;
    left:2px;
    width:292px;
    height:47px;
    font-size:1.5em;
    font-family:'gotham-medium', arial, sans-serif;
    src:url("http://www.3elementsreview.com/fonts/gotham-medium.otf");
    color:#5fccff;
    border-radius:0;
}

Additional code ----->

<select name="Country" id="country">
    <option value="">-Country-</option>
    <option value="United States">United States</option>
    <option value="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</option>
    <option value="Canada">Canada</option>
    <option value="Australia">Australia</option>
    <option value="Brazil">Brazil</option>
    <option value="France">France</option>
    <option value="Italy">Italy</option>
    <option value="New Zealand">New Zealand</option>
    <option value="South Africa">South Africa</option>
</select>

Solution

You cannot control the drop down expansion direction. This is something the browser calculates. Perhaps you can try making some workaround. Make your own custom dropdown system? Maybe have a fake select box with a second dropdown positioned elsewhere. Or avoid your problem all together with some other solution.

related: How can I control the expansion direction of a drop-down list?

Answered By - jaredrada