I want to use an image for the background of a select/dropdown. The following CSS works fine in Firefox and IE, but does not in Chrome:
#main .drop-down-loc { width:506px; height: 30px; border: none;
background-color: Transparent;
background: url(images/text-field.gif) no-repeat 0 0;
padding:4px; line-height: 21px;}
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What Arne said - you can't reliably style select boxes and have them look anything like consistent across browsers.
Uniform: https://github.com/pixelmatrix/uniform is a javascript solution which gives you good graphic control over your form elements - it's still Javascript, but it's about as nice as javascript gets for solving this problem.
you can use the below css styles for all browsers except Firefox 30
select {
background: url(dropdown_arw.png) no-repeat right center;
appearance: none;
-moz-appearance: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
width: 90px;
text-indent: 0.01px;
text-overflow: "";
}
demo page - http://kvijayanand.in/jquery-plugin/test.html
Updated
here is solution for Firefox 30. little trick for custom select elements in firefox :-moz-any() css pseudo class.
select
{
-webkit-appearance: none;
}
If you need to you can also add an image that contains the arrow as part of the background.
Generally, it's considered a bad practice to style standard form controls because the output looks so different on each browser. See: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/styling-form-controls-revisited/select-single/ for some rendered examples.
That being said, I've had some luck making the background color an RGBA value:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
background: #d00;
}
select {
background: rgba(255,255,255,0.1) url('http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo6g.png') repeat-x 0 0;
padding:4px;
line-height: 21px;
border: 1px solid #fff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<select>
<option>Foo</option>
<option>Bar</option>
<option>Something longer</option>
</body>
</html>
Google Chrome still renders a gradient on top of the background image in the color that you pass to rgba(r,g,b,0.1) but choosing a color that compliments your image and making the alpha 0.1 reduces the effect of this.
Source: Stackoverflow.com