I\'d like to change the blue background color from IE when a drop down is focused, but I can\'t seem to find any CSS to do this.
I'm using the CSS below and it is working in latest IE11, Edge, Firefox and Chrome (I have not tested it with earlier browsers). Just remove border-radius and padding if you don't need them. And thanks to willrice for his contribution:
select {
-webkit-appearance: none;
-moz-appearance: none;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
padding: 5px;
}
select:focus::-ms-value {
background: white;
color: black;
}
select::-ms-expand {
display: none;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
padding: 5px;
}
Appreciate this is an oldish question, but to prevent the blue background on a selected option in a select dropdown in IE, use the MS pseudo element -ms-value as mentioned by WillRice above. Importantly though you need to set a color css attribute as well for the text as this will get defaulted to white.
select::-ms-value {
background: none; /* remove blue background on ie10/ie11 when selected*/
color:#000;
}
More info here
In Internet Explorer 11/Edge (not sure about previous versions) you can do this:
select:focus::-ms-value {
color: black;
background: red;
}
You should also specify the font color because it otherwise defaults to white (to originally contrast against the blue), so you'll want to override it too.
Here's a dabblet demo
I've been fiddling around with css and javascript and have searched the internet to find a solution. Unfortunately it looks like it's not possible to change IE's blue highlight itself. In the following example I've used a combination of CSS an JS to achieve nearly the same result in ie as you have on http://jsfiddle.net/TafDD/3/ . Have a look at it.
An example is worth a thousand words: (tested in IE7)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS Form Select Focus Color Change Test Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
/* Set the desired background color for the whole select element */
form select {
background-color: #fff;
}
form select option {
background: transparent;
}
/* Set the desired color for the focus state */
select:focus, select.focus {
background-color: #f00;
outline: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="POST">
<div id="selectWrap">
<select id="focusSelect" name="test_select">
<option value="1">Option 1</option>
<option value="2">Option 2</option>
<option value="3">Option 3</option>
</select>
</div>
</form>
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>
// NOTE: This is a pure JavaScript variant.
// You could also use something like jQuery.
var selectBox = document.getElementById('focusSelect');
// This will add the .focus class to the select
// giving it the defined background color
selectBox.onfocusin = function() {
this.className = 'focus';
};
// and this will restore the original background
// color by removing the .focus class
selectBox.onfocusout = function() {
this.className = '';
};
// This removes the blue highlight after an option is selected
selectBox.onchange = function() {
this.blur();
};
</script><![endif]-->
</body>
</html>
I hope this helps you.
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These sites will give you information on how to further style the select with css and / or javascript.
Have fun reading and happy coding!