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CSS

Posted by pavz
pavz
10,309 Points

Creating a custom-designed arrow for the <select> attribute

Folks, how are you doing? A quick question for you. How to make a custom-looking arrow in my dropdown menu of my list of states?

Here's the link to the preferred design of an arrow: https://www.dropbox.com/s/88w8tsmkk6mc8gw/custom_arrow_example.png?dl=0

Here's the link to the project: https://github.com/pzhestkov/Project_3

Big thanks in advance.

1 Answer

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

The following will put "xxx " before each option:

option::before {
    content: "xxx ";
}

I didn't try, but you can use a URL with content. Here's a resource: https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/c/content/ His notes say: This is literally an image on the page like <img> would be. It could also be a gradient. Note that you cannot change the dimensions of the image when inserted this way. You could also insert an image by using an empty string for the content, making it display: block in some way, sizing it, and using background-image. That way you could re-size it with background-size.