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Custom select menu - CSS only

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// Timestamps //
00:00 Intro
02:02 The HTML
03:03 Starting the CSS
05:14 Setting up the custom button
08:05 pointerevents none
09:30 Fixing the size
11:11 The custom icons
16:37 Outro

Customizing form elements can be one of the hardest things to do with CSS, with select menus being the worst of the bunch. Instead of creating a completely new element with a pile of divs and a bunch of JS, there are ways to customize select menus though!

It doesn't give you 100% control, but you can go pretty far with a couple of pseudoelements and the use of pointerevents: none read more about pointer events here: https://developer.mozilla.org/enUS/d...



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