I'm trying to style the dropdown arrow of a <select>
element with CSS only , it works perfectly in Chrome/Safari:
select {
-webkit-appearance: button;
-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
-webkit-padding-end: 20px;
-webkit-padding-start: 2px;
-webkit-user-select: none;
background-image: url('./select-arrow1.png') ;
background-position: center right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border: 1px solid #AAA;
margin: 0;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
width: 200px;
}
Which renders beautifully as seen here
By that logic, the only thing I had to do to make it work in Firefox was to add all -webkit-*
stuff as -moz-*
:
-moz-appearance: button;
-moz-border-radius: 2px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
-moz-padding-end: 20px;
-moz-padding-start: 2px;
-moz-user-select: none;
It works for 99%, the only problem is that the default dropdown arrow doesn't go away, and stays on top of the background image as seen here
It looks like -moz-appearance: button;
does not work for a <select>
element. Also -moz-appearance: none;
has no effect to remove the default dropdown arrow.
So what is the correct value for -moz-appearance
to remove the default dropdown arrow?
December 11, 2014: Stop inventing new hacks. After 4 and a half years, -moz-appearance:none
is starting to work since Firefox 35. Although moz-appearance:button
is still broken, you don't need to use it anyway. Here is a very basic working example.
April 28, 2014: The mentioned css hack worked for a couple of months but since the begining of April 2014 this bug is creeping back into Firefox 31.0.a1 Nightly on all platforms.
Update: this was fixed in Firefox v35. See the full gist for details.