Select

The ability to style a <select> menu has long been high on list of web designer’s want lists. The inside part anyway; the part that opens up when you activate it. The outside we’ve been able to style for a while. Open UI did a bunch of research and even had a browser implementation of […]

We just looked at how “animate to auto” (e.g. transition from a fixed value to a keyword like auto, max-content, etc.) is “opt-in” in a sense. You have to use interpolate-size: allow-keywords; to make it work or use a function like calc-size(), neither of which you accidentally do. This is because research showed that it […]

A good point by Mayank: The multiple attribute on <select> should pretty much never be used. It’s like the polar opposite of single <select>, where instead of universal familiarity, it has universal unfamiliarity. Perhaps its only saving grace is that I have yet to encounter this attribute in any codebase. HTML: The Bad Parts