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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

(developer.chrome.com)
497 points tosh | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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dpcx ◴[31 Mar 25 13:47 UTC] No.43535016[source]▶
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.

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dqv ◴[31 Mar 25 13:55 UTC] No.43535107[source]▶
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.

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no_wizard ◴[31 Mar 25 14:29 UTC] No.43535475[source]▶
Huge miss in my opinion. If it doesn’t support all scenarios I’m not sure what the Chrome team is thinking here
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kelnos ◴[31 Mar 25 19:34 UTC] No.43538897[source]▶
I expect they're thinking they should ship something that works, and covers some use cases, and gradually improve it over time to support more use cases.

Y'know, like how most software development works.

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1. 8n4vidtmkvmk ◴[01 Apr 25 04:39 UTC] No.43542907[source]▶
They've screwed this up several times by shipping too soon and then having to backpedal. The web is not something you want to screw up because they don't own every website in existence.