You definitely should do it like in Styling select, optgroup and options with CSS. Now strictly speaking, the fixed list is a side effect - but it just helps us more because we use it for the "dropped-down look". Chosen from the awesome folks at Harvest is another great example of customized form elements that are still very user friendly and arguably easier to use. I want to keep it open and leave room for people to innovate. In this basic arrow design concept, the creator has given a css bouncing arrow design which keeps bouncing continuosly. The design wasnt necessarily the problem. We'd love it if you made your question more explicit. @MatthewMorek: there was a better solution, even 3 years ago. Is this an ironclad wish? } will there be any issues if we use this? How to proceed? As far as I know, there is no way to style these in > any browser. There is no need to pizazz them up. Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled, Where developers & technologists share private knowledge with coworkers, Programming & related technical career opportunities, Recruit tech talent & build your employer brand, Reach developers & technologists worldwide. Just make sure that the "button"-element comes right after the select element in the markup. could you please elaborate on your statement: "Firefox is fully customizable through CSS" to me it looks like firefox doesn't support the appearence property so how would this be done in firefox? I wish I knew of a better answer than that, and perhaps there is one that I've missed, but i don't think so. Use the readonly property if you prefer the default select-restricted way. Frankly, if you dont like the way a particular OS renders its form controls, then dont use that particular OS. Smashing Magazine had a great article on this: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/24/a-closer-look-at-font-rendering/. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. How to create a