Styled Select Fields, Only CSS/HTML

Style select fields without Javascript

by Matthew Schenker

HTML

<label>
	In This Section<br/>
	</p>
  <select>
    <option selected> Select Box </option>
    <option>Short Option</option>
    <option>This Is A Much Longer Option that could go over</option>
  </select>
</label>

CSS

p {
	margin-bottom: 0;
}

select {
  padding: 3px;
  margin: 0;
  -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
  -moz-border-radius: 4px;
  border-radius: 4px;
  background: #f6f6f6;
  color: #999;
  border: 1px solid #f6f6f6;
  outline: none;
  display: inline-block;
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  -moz-appearance: none;
  appearance: none;
  cursor: pointer;
}

/* Targetting Webkit browsers only. FF will show the dropdown arrow with so much padding. */
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
  select {
    padding-right: 18px
  }
}

label {
  position: relative
}

label:after {
  content: '<>';
  font: 11px "Consolas", monospace;
  color: #aaa;
  -webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(90deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(90deg);
  transform: rotate(90deg);
  right: 8px;
  top: 2px;
  padding: 0 0 2px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #f6f6f6;
  position: absolute;
  pointer-events: none;
}

label:before {
  content: '';
  right: 6px;
  top: 0px;
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
  background: #f6f6f6;
  position: absolute;
  pointer-events: none;
  display: block;
}