The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

This looks like what web developers have been waiting literally decades for. Possibly replacing (eventually) a bunch of JS libraries to make this all do what we want.

I don't have Chrome installed, but I'm curious how it handles multi-select fields, as I didn't see that in the example video.

I just tried it in the Codepen and it reverts to a regular old UI element when it has the multiple attribute.

Also just tried it with multiple="multiple" just in case. Same behavior.

Huge miss in my opinion. If it doesn’t support all scenarios I’m not sure what the Chrome team is thinking here

Incremental improvement?

Why release anything right?

Incremental improvement is great, but I do want to know what they're thinking here.

They didn't mention it in the blog post that multiple isn't supported. Its perfectly fine if it is not supported right now. It would be great if they acknowledged that up front to set expectations accordingly.

For instance, if its explicitly not supported, then I won't be left wondering if its a bug or a misunderstanding of the implementation etc.

Communication would be really good here. I'm all for incremental improvement, I think we need more of it.

Doesn't mean there shouldn't be better communication about it.

In the original dev blog from last year they mention it’s still a work in progress.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/rfc-customizable-select

> Note: The multiple and size attributes on select (<select multiple> and <select size=n>) are not supported in appearance: base-select yet.