Style Dropdown Lease For Free

Here are the general steps to inspect dynamic dropdown elements: Open Developer Tools: Right-click on the dropdown element you want to inspect and select "Inspect" or press Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Option+I (Mac) to open the developer tools.

You can style the contents of the dropdown menu using CSS. Take a look at the example HTML code below. There are now three new element ids in use. They are applied to the href elements of the ?dropdownMenuItems? class.

Customizing the <select> dropdown with CSS only One important piece of code here is the appearance: none declaration. It instructs the browser to remove the default appearance styles of the native dropdown. This is a crucial step we need to take before we apply our custom styles.

STEP 1 ? Create a select tag with multiple options and assign an id to the select tag. STEP 2 ? Also, create an empty DOM with an id to display the output. STEP 3 ? Let there be a button element for the user to click and see the option selected. STEP 4 ? Let the user select an option from the dropdown list.

How to Create an HTML Dropdown List // Syntax <select name="" id=""> <option value="">...</ option> // ... </ ... // Syntax <label for="languages">List of Languages:</label> <select name="" id="languages"> <option value="">...</ option> // ... </ ... <select name="" id="languages" required> // ... </

Styling the <select> and <option> in css The trick to customizing these is to use display: none; on the select tag. This gets rid of the default arrow and then you can use . select-selected:after to create a custom drop down arrow. You can find an example of this here.

Use pointer-events: none; The CSS pointer-events property can be used to create individual <select> drop-downs, by overlaying an element over the native drop-down arrow (to create the custom one) and disallowing pointer-events on it. This method works well and has excellent browser support.