When styling a form element in Bootstrap 3, it renders an ugly button on the in Firefox on OS X:
We have been using the plugin bootstrap-select for Bootstrap for dtyling selects. Really works well and has lots of interesting additional features. I can recommend it for sure.
Building on the excellent answers by rafx and Sina, here is a snippet that only targets Firefox and replaces the default button with a down-caret copied from Bootstrap's icon theme.
Before:
After:
@-moz-document url-prefix() {
select.form-control {
padding-right: 25px;
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,\
<svg version='1.1' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='14px'\
height='14px' viewBox='0 0 1200 1000' fill='rgb(51,51,51)'>\
<path d='M1100 411l-198 -199l-353 353l-353 -353l-197 199l551 551z'/>\
</svg>");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: calc(100% - 7px) 50%;
-moz-appearance: none;
appearance: none;
}
}
(The inline SVG has backslashes and newlines for readability. Remove them if they cause trouble in your asset pipeline.)
Here is the JSFiddle
This is the normal behavior, and it's caused by the default <select>
style under Firefox : you can't set line-height
, then you need to play on padding
when you want to have a customized <select>
.
Example, with results under Firefox 25 / Chrome 31 / IE 10 :
<select>
<option>Default</option>
<option>Default</option>
<option>Default</option>
</select>
<select class="form-control">
<option>Bootstrap</option>
<option>Bootstrap</option>
<option>Bootstrap</option>
</select>
<select class="form-control custom">
<option>Custom</option>
<option>Custom</option>
<option>Custom</option>
</select>
select.custom {
padding: 0px;
}
Bootply
Actualy you can do almost everything with dropdown field, and it will looks the same on every browser, take a look at code example
select.custom {
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20fill%3D%22%23555555%22%20%0A%09%20width%3D%2224px%22%20height%3D%2224px%22%20viewBox%3D%22-261%20145.2%2024%2024%22%20style%3D%22enable-background%3Anew%20-261%20145.2%2024%2024%3B%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%0A%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M-245.3%2C156.1l-3.6-6.5l-3.7%2C6.5%20M-252.7%2C159l3.7%2C6.5l3.6-6.5%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E");
padding-right: 25px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: right center;
-webkit-appearance: none;
-moz-appearance: none;
appearance: none;
}
select.custom::-ms-expand {
display: none;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/x76j455z/10/
There is a slick-looking jQuery plugin that apparently plays nice with Bootstrap called SelectBoxIt (http://gregfranko.com/jquery.selectBoxIt.js/). The thing I like about it is that it allows you to trigger the native select box on whatever OS you are on while still maintaining a consistent styling (http://gregfranko.com/jquery.selectBoxIt.js/#TriggertheNativeSelectBox). Oh how I wish Bootstrap provided this option!
The only downside to this is that it adds another layer of complexity into a solution, and additional work to ensure compatibility with all other plug-ins as they get upgraded/patched over time. I'm also not sure about Bootstrap 3 compatibility. But, this may be a good solution to ensure a consistent look across browsers and OS's.
This is easy. You just need to put inside .form-control
this:
.form-control{
-webkit-appearance:none;
-moz-appearance: none;
-ms-appearance: none;
-o-appearance: none;
appearance: none;
}
This will remove browser's appearance and allow your CSS.