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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

(developer.chrome.com)
507 points tosh | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | 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. montag ◴[31 Mar 25 22:15 UTC] No.43540555[source]▶
I may not agree with your ugly scrollbars, but I will defend your right to style them.

(If you want to annoy your users, that's your prerogative)