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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
All the same interfaces, sweet new looks.
This has been many years in the making, many hours of engineering and collaborative specification work, and the result is an incredibly rich and powerful component that won't break in older browsers. A new CSS property appearance: base-select that puts the<select> element into a new, configurable and styleable state to be commonly referred to as "base" styles: However, if you do begin adding rich HTML into your<option> elements, you should test the selected values, as the browser does still parse and ignore images and SVG.
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