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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

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507 points tosh | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | 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. userbinator ◴[01 Apr 25 04:13 UTC] No.43542772[source]▶
managed even to remove scrollbars altogether from their website

What's worse are the custom JS ones that only appear on hover, obscuring the contents partially where they happen to be, and then when you try to drag them and accidentally move the pointer just a tiny bit off their skinny width, they disappear and you end up accidentally activating whatever element happens to be underneath.