selectonemenu component width adjusting to selectItems values IE10 issue - jsf-2

Before my application was using primefaces 3.4.2 version at that time selectonemenu component width was not adjusting to selectItems's label text and was fixed according to defined field but after moving to primefaces 5 version all selectonemenu component width by default now adjusting to selectItems's label text.SelectItems's value has been retrieved from bean and it looks ugly on UI that again and again selectonemenu component changing its width according to selectItems's label value.
<p:outputPanel id="groupId">
<fieldset class="noBorderFieldsetclass">
<legend class="noBorderFiledSetLegendclass">Detail</legend>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="9"><p:spacer height="10"></p:spacer></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td styleClass="titlesClass">Title1:</td>
<td colspan="8">
<p:selectOneMenu id="selectOneMenuId1" style="width:130px;" value="#{bean.selectOneMenuId1Value}" immediate="true">
<f:selectItem itemLabel="Select" itemValue="" />
<f:selectItems value="#{bean.title1List}" var="title1" itemLabel="#{title1.label}" itemValue="#{title1.labelValue}" />
<p:ajax update="selectOneMenuId2 selectOneMenuId3 selectOneMenuId4 selectOneMenuId5" listener="#{bean.title1Listener}" process="#this"/>
</p:selectOneMenu>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td styleClass="titlesClass">Title2:</td>
<td>
<p:selectOneMenu id="selectOneMenuId2" style="width: 130px;" value="#{bean.selectOneMenuId2Value}">
<f:selectItem itemLabel="Select" itemValue="" />
<f:selectItems value="#{bean.title2List}" var="title2" itemLabel="#{title2.label}" itemValue="#{title2.labelValue}" />
<p:ajax update="selectOneMenuId3 selectOneMenuId4 selectOneMenuId5" listener="#{bean.title2Listener}" process="#this"/>
</p:selectOneMenu>
</td>
---
---
</tr>
</table>
Please let me know how can I make selectonemenu component width fixed and not to adjust according to values of selectItems retrieved from bean.I can't set selectonemenu component width globally because each selectonemenu component width is defined according to screen layout.

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