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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.

HTML) Use any element to open the dropdown content, e.g. a <span>, or a <button> element. Use a container element (like <div>) to create the dropdown content and add whatever you want inside of it. Wrap a <div> element around the elements to position the dropdown content correctly with CSS.

Use a container element (like <div>) to create the dropdown content and add whatever you want inside of it. Wrap a <div> element around the elements to position the dropdown content correctly with CSS.

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.

Steps Step 1 ? Create a drop-down list in HTML with a selection of font styles. ... Step 2 ? Select the element you want to apply the font style to using JavaScript. Step 3 ? Add an changeFontStyle to the drop-down list that listens for changes to the selected option.

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.