How can I remove the dotted lines on a SELECT/OPTION dropdown control in Firefox?

Edward Tanguay picture Edward Tanguay · Feb 6, 2011 · Viewed 16.4k times · Source

In Chrome and other browsers my dropdown looks fine:

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However, in Firefox it has unwanted dotted lines:

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I have successfully removed the unwanted Firefox dotted lines for buttons and input elements with these CSS statements:

button::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; }
input::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; }

so I thought these would work for the select/option elements, but they don't:

select::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; }
option::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; }

How can I remove the dotted lines in this dropdown so that it appears as in Chrome and other browsers?

Addendum

These don't work either:

select::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; outline: 0 }
option::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; outline: 0 }

nor these:

select { outline: 0; }
option { outline: 0; }

nor these:

select { outline: none; }
option { outline: none; }

Answer

istr picture istr · Dec 16, 2014

James Broad's answer is nearly perfect, but the "shadow-only" text for the option items looks ugly. This is what works perfectly for me:

select:-moz-focusring {
  color:transparent;
  text-shadow:0 0 0 #000; /* your normal text color here */
}
select:-moz-focusring * {
  color:#000; /* your normal text color here */
  text-shadow:none;
}