After spending nearly two hours scouring the internet, I couldn't find a single example of how to style a select dropdown with CSS. I was particularly interested in using z-index to display the select dropdown under an absolutely positioned div block. All I could find was information on styling offsets, background colors, and fonts. What about the other CSS properties? My search for webkit shadow dom also yielded no results. Is it really impossible to achieve this? :(
Customizing Select Boxes with CSS:
HTML:
<label>
<select>
<option selected> Choose an Option </option>
<option>Short Choice</option>
<option>This Choice Is Longer</option>
</select>
</label>
CSS:
body, html {
background:#444;
text-align:center;
padding:50px 0;
}
select {
padding:3px;
margin: 0;
-webkit-border-radius:4px;
-moz-border-radius:4px;
border-radius:4px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 3px 0 #ccc, 0 -1px #fff inset;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 3px 0 #ccc, 0 -1px #fff inset;
box-shadow: 0 3px 0 #ccc, 0 -1px #fff inset;
background: #f8f8f8;
color:#888;
border:none;
outline:none;
display: inline-block;
-webkit-appearance:none;
-moz-appearance:none;
appearance:none;
cursor:pointer;
}
/* Styles for Webkit browsers only. Firefox may render differently. */
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
select {padding-right:18px}
}
label {position:relative}
label:after {
content:'<>';
font:11px "Consolas", monospace;
color:#aaa;
-webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform:rotate(90deg);
-ms-transform:rotate(90deg);
transform:rotate(90deg);
right:8px; top:2px;
padding:0 0 2px;
border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;
position:absolute;
pointer-events:none;
}
label:before {
content:'';
right:6px; top:0px;
width:20px; height:20px;
background:#f8f8f8;
position:absolute;
pointer-events:none;
display:block;
}
Example:
Check out this code snippet.
body {
margin-top:20px;
margin-left:20px;
}
select {
padding:9px;
margin: 0;
border-radius:4px;
-webkit-box-shadow:
0 0px 0 #ccc,
0 0px #fff inset;
background: url('http://i45.tinypic.com/309nb74.png') no-repeat right, -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FBFBFB 0%, #E9E9E9 100%);
background: url('http://i45.tinypic.com/309nb74.png') no-repeat right, -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#FBFBFB), color-stop(100%,#E9E9E9));
color:black;
border:none;
outline:none;
display: inline-block;
-webkit-appearance:none;
cursor:pointer;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
Take a look at this example
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