The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. Adam Argyle From Chrome 135, web developers and designers can finally unite on an accessible, standardized and CSS styleable element on the web. This has been many years in the making, many hours of engineering and collaborative specification work, and the result is an incredibly rich and powerful component that won't break in older browsers. Here's a video of customized selects using these new features: Featuring demos by Una, Brecht, and Adam. If you've been following along closely, you'll notice a few spec names and features have changed since Una's request for community feedback. Luckily, if you worked from that post and are interested in what's changed, Una's also got you covered. Meet appearance: base-select A new CSS property appearance: base-select that puts the element into a new, configurable and styleable state to be commonly referred to as "base" styles: . custom ... Read full article.