On cpan I found what they might be looking for: 
   %labels = ('eenie'=>'your first choice',
          'meenie'=>'your second choice',
          'minie'=>'your third choice');
   print $query->popup_menu('menu_name',
                ['eenie','meenie','minie'],
                'meenie',\%labels);

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Which is essentially what you have. I removed the actual text and attempted to add spaces (to see if you can change the length of the line) and you can't. All spaces in the labels are removed leaving the longest line the length of the longest text label. For fun I tried   but that shows up as text instead of as a space.

Anyway, these are my findings..

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sulfericacid

In reply to Re: Re: Re: CGI form element sizing issue by sulfericacid
in thread CGI form element sizing issue by Anonymous Monk

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