Say Hello to <selectmenu>, a Fully Style-able <select> Element

Over at CSS-Tricks, Patrick Brosset dug into <selectmenu>, the customizable <select> we always wanted.

The new experimental <selectmenu> control offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to styling and even extending a traditional <select>. And it does this in all the right ways, because it’s built into the browser where accessibility and viewport-aware positioning are handled for you.

To test it out, you’ll need Chromium with the “Experimental Web Platform features” flag enabled.

Say Hello to <selectmenu>, a Fully Style-able <select> Element →
<selectmenu> Demos →

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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