{"id":4034,"date":"2024-09-26T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2024-09-26T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:45:14","slug":"opt-in-styleable-selects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/opt-in-styleable-selects\/","title":{"rendered":"Opt-In Styleable Selects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We just looked at<\/a> how “animate to auto” (e.g. transition<\/code> from a fixed value to a keyword like auto<\/code>, max-content<\/code>, etc.) is “opt-in” in a sense. You have to use interpolate-size: allow-keywords;<\/code> to make it work or use a function like calc-size()<\/code>, neither of which you accidentally do. This is because research<\/a> showed that it would break things just enough to be annoying and the web don’t play like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same vein, there has been work done on making a “styleable” <select><\/code> element (as in, CSS control over what it looks like when you open it, which has never really been possible). This is another thing that needs<\/em> to be opt-in, lest break websites (imagine CSS applied to a select menu accidentally that will all the sudden start working and cause who knows what all chaos). At first, it was going to be a new element <selectmenu><\/code>, which is maybe OK but quite hard to progressive enhance toward. Now things are pointing toward this opt-in:<\/p>\n\n\n

select<\/span>,\n::picker(select)<\/span> {\n  appearance<\/span>: base-select;\n}<\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> CSS<\/span> (<\/span>css<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,50],"class_list":["post-4034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-css","tag-select"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/select-fallback_1920.png?fit=1218%2C678&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Una has the whole story.<\/a> The demos are compelling, and can even be animated<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"