I want to remove the default arrow from the select box and want to use custom icon. From the previous answers on SO, I have found out that it is not possible (to make it work with major browsers). Only possibility is to wrap the select inside a div, and set its width more than the div width and setting overflow: hidden. I am trying following, but it does not work. What I'm doing wrong?
.selectParent {
width: 80px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.selectParent select {
width: 100px;
-webkit-appearance: none;
-moz-appearance: none;
appearance: none;
padding: 2px 30px 2px 2px;
border: none;
background: transparent url("http://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/cc_mono_icon_set/blacks/16x16/br_down.png") no-repeat right center;
}
<div class="selectParent">
<select>
<option value="1">Option 1</option>
<option value="2">Option 2</option>
</select>
</div>
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gcPmC/
The main trick is to apply appearance: none which lets you override some of the styling. It doesn't replace the OS select menu UI element so all the problems related to doing that are non-existant (not being able to break out of the browser window with a long list being the main one).
Attach Inspector, press Ctrl+Shift+LMB on that arrow and you'll see what you should change.
Please follow the way like below:
.selectParent {
width:120px;
overflow:hidden;
}
.selectParent select {
display: block;
width: 100%;
padding: 2px 25px 2px 2px;
border: none;
background: url("http://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/cc_mono_icon_set/blacks/16x16/br_down.png") right center no-repeat;
appearance: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
-moz-appearance: none;
}
.selectParent.left select {
direction: rtl;
padding: 2px 2px 2px 25px;
background-position: left center;
}
/* for IE and Edge */
select::-ms-expand {
display: none;
}
<div class="selectParent">
<select>
<option value="1">Option 1</option>
<option value="2">Option 2</option>
</select>
</div>
<br />
<div class="selectParent left">
<select>
<option value="1">Option 1</option>
<option value="2">Option 2</option>
</select>
</div>
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