Increasing width of Multiselect in OBIEE 10g

I was recently involved in a project implementation on OBIEE 10g. The dashboard had a multiselect and the values in the prompt were huge. The standard width of the multiselect was making the user uncomfortable since a large part of the value was hidden due to the small size of the multiselect. This blog talks about a method to fix this problem.

Let me first show you how the multiselect looked.

I added a text dashboard object with the following code and checked Contains HTML Markup check box.

<style>
INPUT {
width: 100pt;
}
</style>

The following screenshot shows the increased width.