How to Style and Customize HTML Select Box Created by Select Element using CSS

How to Style and Customize HTML5 Select Box Created by Select Element using CSS

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

Learn to style an HTML select box using CSS and replace the default arrow for the dropdown applied by the browser with your own custom arrow. You will learn to create cross-browser custom css3 select box dropdown using the HTML5 select tag. It means the select box arrows will be supported in all the major browsers including ie10 or above. Here you also will learn three different methods to create a custom select box dropdown without using any external javascript library or bootstrap. We will simply use few css3 advance properties to get the effect of the custom arrow in your select dropdown box or what you call HTML combo box. I will show you how easily you can hide the default arrow from selectbox and apply your own custom arrow.

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=================Navigate to Specific part=============

1:30 – Applying common styles to all select elements
3:58 – #1 Background Image Technique to Style HTML5 Select Box
7:15 – #2 Using CSS3 Border to Create Downword Arrow
13:27 – #3 Using FontAwesome Glyphicon for the Arrow in our Selectbox Dropdown list
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HOW WE WILL CREATE OUR CUSTOM SELECTBOX USING CCS3?

To create a select box we simply use the html5 document to create our markup for the select box. We will create three different select boxes using the “select” element and the “option” element for creating dropdown lists.

To hide the default styling from the select element applied by the browser we will use the css3 appearance property and set its value to none. And then, we will use an another useful rule to hide the default arrows applied by Internet explorer 10; from the select box dropdown.

THREE DIFFERENT METHODS THAT WE WILL BE USING

Each select box will be using a different method for styling the dropdown arrow inside the combobox.
– The first Method will show using an Image Background technique to create custom arrow for the CSS select box.
– The second method will use the CSS border property to create a triangular shape that will be used to customize your select element’s dropdown arrow.
– Finally, the third method will use the fontawesome glyphicon to create our custom arrow for the selectbox dropdown.

All, the method will have the cross-browser support for our custom css3 select box. Each method ensures that it works properly in the Internet explorer 10 or above and other older browser.

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