The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

Posted by tosh 3/31/2025

The <select> element can now be customized with CSS(developer.chrome.com)

507 points | 187 commentspage 4

hk1337 3/31/2025|

meh. it looks really nice but I would rather do the basic styling I can do now for the 99% of the times where I don't really need it.

I have said it before, everyone (Developers that use Chrome almost exclusively) says Safari is the new IE but Chrome has been slowing becoming the thing they fought against since they defeated IE.

jeffhuys 4/1/2025|

I'm sitting here for a few years already, happily using Safari as my main driver. Recently switched to Orion to get Safari + Chrome/FF plugins. Best combination.

Easy on the battery, freaking fast, low ram usage, and plugin support (ALSO on iOS, yes, uBlock on iOS). Screw firefox, screw chrome.

Yes, I also dev on Orion. The dev tools are fine.

hk1337 4/1/2025||

One of the main features I love about Safari is that in private browsing mode, the tabs (at least) appear to be completely isolated.

If I go to Facebook and login in one tab, then open a second tab and go Facebook, it doesn't recognize that I have logged in. There's moments where that is annoying but most of the time it's useful.

jeffhuys 4/1/2025||

Yeah they are, which is IMO a good thing but it'd be better if you could link them somehow, maybe have a temporary session or something.

oliv__ 3/31/2025||

Oh my god. This has got to be like 20 years in the making

rbrownmh 3/31/2025|

I'd love to know the opportunity cost - billions?

alabastervlog 3/31/2025||

The cost of browsers not having extremely-basic things that they either started to implement then abandoned in a nigh-useless state (login, frames) or never even tried to have but really, really should have once it was clear "web apps" were here to stay (datasource-backed lists and tables, table sorting without more custom JS than a sort function, drag-n-drop) is truly enormous. Who knows how many millions of person-hours.

johnfn 3/31/2025||

Now how do I add an text input filter? Is that another 20 year wait? :-)

sbussard 4/1/2025||

Great! Now what about webtransport in WebKit?

BrenBarn 4/1/2025||

Oh joy. Another way for website designers to override user display preferences.

vntok 4/1/2025|

On the contrary. It's CSS, you can change all of this in your browser's CSS overrides if you want.

T3RMINATED 3/31/2025||

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clownpenis_fart 4/3/2025||

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dmvjs 3/31/2025||

in Chrome :wince: I honestly wish they didn't add this

wg0 3/31/2025||

First time I had the idea of building UI for apps using web technologies was in 2009 I suppose. These were the times of MFC/ATL/WinForms/GTK etc.

Since then my faith in Web technologies for building UI for most apps keeps increasing.

Through pure evolution - it's the most beautiful and open platform that's most cross platform.

zb3 3/31/2025|

Developers, don't fall for this!

This web API scope creep makes it __harder__ to create and maintain truly independent web browsers.. you have to implement more and more and eventually we arrive at the current state of matters - all non-chromium engines are lagging behind.

Developers will happily use this, then users will notice websites "look better" in chrome and firefox will become even less relevant. Don't.. you can already achieve this without relying on chromium-only APIs.

gjsman-1000 3/31/2025|

> and firefox will become even less relevant

No; Firefox can easily afford financially to add this feature. Firefox is already irrelevant; no developer will shed a tear about just blocking Firefox if they refuse to implement. Boycotting won't work either, because boycotts almost never work.

misiek08 3/31/2025|||

> Firefox is already irrelevant

Did I miss anything?

It’s still not as clumsy and resource intensive (while destroying hardware like disks) like Chrome..

kelnos 3/31/2025||

GP means irrelevant in the sense that Firefox's market share is so low that web devs need not test on it or ensure compatibility.

This saddens me, as a Firefox user, but we have Mozilla's inept management to blame for this.

codedokode 3/31/2025|||

Firefox doesn't have ad measurement and interests sharing built in yet (or am I wrong?) so it is very relevant for me. I would rather use black-and-white selects everywhere rather than having an advertising engine built into the browser.

tredre3 3/31/2025||

You are indeed wrong.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...

codedokode 4/1/2025||

That is disappointing. I went into settings to turn this off but it is already turned off and I don't remember whether I did it or my distribution ships Firefox with non-recommended settings. I hope it is the latter so that I don't get disappointed in Linux distributions also.

"Privacy preserving attribution" sounds like "money preserving robbery" (or money preserving tax).