#Semantic ui browser default select dropwdown code
It’s about time we got a properly style-able built-in so we don’t have to write this code ever again! The Open UI initiative Web developers have poured hours and hours over the years, trying to solve the same problems over and over, and there are many inaccessible selects out there. Unfortunately, doing so correctly with the right accessibility semantics, keyboard support, and popup positioning is not easy.
The default UI for a element in SafariĪs a result, design systems and component libraries have been rolling out their own selects, made from scratch using custom HTML markup, CSS, and often a lot of JavaScript, in order to have something that integrates nicely with the other components. While it’s relatively easy to style the appearance of the button part of a (the thing you see in the page when the popup is closed), it’s almost impossible to style the options (the thing you see when the popup is open), let alone add more content within the popup. It was then further surveyed by Greg Whitworth who showed that was the control web developers were having the most problems styling with CSS. In fact, form styling was voted as one of the top-10 missing things in the State of CSS Survey in 2020. But first, let’s fill in some context about why something like is needed in the first place, as it’s still evolving and in development.Īsk any web developer what they think is missing from the web platform today, chances are the ability to style form controls will be on their list.
We’ll get deep into it, including how much easier it is to style than a traditional element. I want to introduce you to a new, experimental form control called.
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