How to “turn off” jQuery Mobile's styling of <select> drop downs?

Answer 1

just try data-native-menu="true"

from doc : By adding the data-native-menu="true" attribute to the select, the framework will use the browser's native select menu when the select button is clicked. Because this option doesn't use any of the custom menu parsing and menu generation logic, it is significantly faster than the custom menu version. The custom select menus add the ability to theme the select and provide visual consistency across platforms In addition, it fixes over some missing functionality on certain platforms: optgroup support on Android, multi-select capability on WebOS, and adds an elegant way to handle placeholder values.

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