IE & Firefox - custom drop down could not remove native arrows

Question

I'm trying create a custom drop down control and I need to hide the arrows from the native controls. I'm using the following CSS, which is working for Chrome and Safari, but not in Mozilla and IE.

select.desktopDropDown
{
    appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance:none; /* Firefox */
    -webkit-appearance:none; /* Safari and Chrome */
}

Here is a [jsfiddle][1].

Edora

What was your solution for IE? – Louise

Please accept the top answer if that's what worked instead of writing the answer within your own question – Berlioz

Answer 1

Use this it will work but with IE10+ and for FF :

Your css should look like this:

select.desktopDropDown::-ms-expand {
    display: none;
}

More about ::ms-expand.

Then for the rest :

select.desktopDropDown {
    outline : none;
    overflow : hidden;
    text-indent : 0.01px;
    text-overflow : '';
    background : url("../img/assets/arrow.png") no-repeat right #666;

    -webkit-appearance: none;
       -moz-appearance: none;
        -ms-appearance: none;
         -o-appearance: none;
            appearance: none;
}

Note: I hardcoded path "../img/assets/arrow.png" as background.

This should work good for you in IE, Firefox and Opera .

Dichromatic

Note to those trying this: There is a missing bracket in the first example. – Deference

IE 11 didnt like the spaces in select.desktopDropDown :: -ms-expand. It didnt work until I made it select.desktopDropDown::-ms-expand (no spaces around ::. IE - trolling since 2009 – Bonesetter

@Bonesetter Because the good syntax has no spaces. As you can't expect a browser to understand a mispelled JS function, you can't expect it to understand a mispelled CSS instruction. Simple. – Barbette

bourbon.io doesn't catch this with @include appearance(none); great answer +1 – Mathildamathilde

Answer 2

Bare-bones examples:

For I.E:

select::-ms-expand {
    display: none;
}  

For Firefox:

select {
    -moz-appearance: none;
    appearance: none;

    text-overflow: ''; /* this is important! */
}

Deference

Answer 3

For Fx I use -moz-appearance: checkbox-container which works nicely.

So putting it all together the following should be sufficient for you:

select.desktopDropDown {
    appearance: none;
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance: checkbox-container;
    border-style: none;
}
select.desktopDropDown::-ms-expand {
    display: none;
}

Carmancarmarthen

Answer 4

In fact this trick is mainly required for IE10+ where the arrows are in the Metro style of Windows 8, even on Windows 7. Though Windows 8 users must be used to the style cause it's used through the OS. Anyway, I'd recommend instead of using:

display: none;

To use:

visibility: hidden;

Because, at least in IE, the former causes the blue line of the selected item to overlay the dropdown arrow when the select is focused, while the latter does not.

Escarole

Answer 5

we can create custom by using css. tested on IE10, Mozilla and chrome borwser...
Working Example as below :

.customSelect {
  position: relative;
}

/* IE11 hide hacks*/
select::-ms-expand {
display: none;
}

.customSelect:after {
  content: '<>';
  font: 17px "Consolas", monospace;
  color: #333;
  -webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(90deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(90deg);
  transform: rotate(90deg);
  right: 11px;
  /*Adjust for position however you want*/
  
  top: 18px;
  padding: 0 0 2px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #999;
  /*left line */
  
  position: absolute;
  pointer-events: none;
}

.customSelect select {
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  -moz-appearance: none;
  appearance: none;
  /* Add some styling */
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
  float: none;
  margin: 5px 0px;
  padding: 0px 24px;
  font-size: 16px;
  line-height: 1.75;
  color: #333;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  background-image: none;
  border: 1px solid #cccccc;
  -ms-word-break: normal;
  word-break: normal;
}

<div class="customSelect">
  <label>
      <select>
          <option selected> Select Box </option>
          <option>Option 1</option>
          <option>Option 2</option>
          <option>Last long option</option>
      </select>
  </label>
</div>

Lyontine