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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

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507 points tosh | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.474s | source
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butz ◴[31 Mar 25 15:30 UTC] No.43536187[source]▶
Some controls are better left unstyled. Look what happened to scrollbars: either they are too thin to grab, have bad color contrast, so it is hard to see what part to actually grab, and, finally, some smartypants have managed even to remove scrollbars altogether from their website. Sure, default select is not the prettiest control, but it gets it job done.
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1. 65 ◴[31 Mar 25 18:57 UTC] No.43538464[source]▶
I disagree. On my website I have a sidebar and a main content area. You are able to scroll through posts on the sidebar and through the content on the main content area. The sidebar is a dark color. Being able to use a thin sidebar and make the color of the sidebar dark to match the background makes the website look a lot better than having a clunky white sidebar on a dark background.

The user can still obviously see the sidebar and knows its a sidebar, it just works better with the design.

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2. KTibow ◴[31 Mar 25 20:15 UTC] No.43539398[source]▶
Ideally web browsers would use better defaults so you wouldn't have to do this. Firefox is good with this in my opinion: scrollbars are very subtle, don't affect content width, and adapt to the `color-scheme`.