How to Hide a <Select> Arrow in Firefox 30+

Firefox 30 is not hiding select box arrows anymore

Update

As of January 2015, this now works again with the release of Firefox 35. See the answer below for historical reference.

 

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Background

The hack that was used is this:

select {
    -moz-appearance: none;
    text-indent: 0.01px;
    text-overflow: '';
}

In my testing, on FF 29, -moz-appearance:none; had no affect. What caused the arrow box to not appear was the second two lines. It said that any overflow is to be replaced by an empty string, and then it used text-indent to cause the select to overflow. Since the arrow box is rendered as a single element, similar to a single letter, this caused it to be replaced by the empty string.

What Happened

Someone at Mozilla noticed that if you have padding on a dropdown select, the arrow doesn't change size. According to the bug report, this issue has now been fixed:

The problem is that this has divorced the arrow from normal CSS rules. I've tried padding, text-indent, margin, white-space, text-wrap, and a few more, and I can't find anything that will affect it. Elsewhere around the internet, people are saying the same thing, unfortunately.

What Now

1. We have a few options. You can use an overlay combined with pointer-events:none to style the dropdown however you want: Tutorial

2. You can create a completely separate dropdown to replace select, using Javascript: Tutorial

We can also watch the request on Firefox's Bugzilla, and hope that someday they will create a non-hacky way to do this. PLEASE NOTE: Don't go there and start posting comments about wanting it. Part of the reason it's been so delayed is that people threw a fit. It may help to vote for the issue.

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Update Sept. 2014

This is now being actively worked on for Firefox. 2 patches have been submitted and have been awaiting review for a week. Most probably scenario is that this makes it into FF35 Aurora, and we have a few weeks for it to get reviewed and approved before the cutoff date (Firefox operates on a 6 week release schedule). It could also be delayed, and it could even theoretically be "uplifted", meaning patched in the current Aurora and Beta versions, to get released sooner.

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Update Oct. 2014

This how now been officially resolved! Kind of. A patch to allow users to hide the dropdown arrow element has been committed and will be shipped with Firefox 35 in January 2015.

This will only allow users to hide the arrow. To style it is another issue, which has been spun off into another bug ticket which will be considered in the future.

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Update Jan. 2015

This has now been fixed! Firefox 35 came out on January 13, and you can now use -moz-appearance:none to remove the arrow.

How to remove the arrow from a select element in Firefox

Okay, I know this question is old, but 2 years down the track and mozilla have done nothing.

I've come up with a simple workaround.

This essentially strips all formatting of the select box in firefox and wraps a span element around the select box with your custom style, but should only apply to firefox.

Say this is your select menu:

<select class='css-select'>
  <option value='1'> First option </option>
  <option value='2'> Second option </option>
</select>

And lets assume the css class 'css-select' is:

.css-select {
   background-image: url('images/select_arrow.gif');
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-position: right center;
   padding-right: 20px;
}

In firefox, this would display with the select menu, followed by the ugly firefox select arrow, followed by your nice custom looking one. Not ideal.

Now to get this going in firefox, add a span element around with the class 'css-select-moz':

   <span class='css-select-moz'>
     <select class='css-select'>
       <option value='1'> First option </option>
       <option value='2'> Second option </option>
     </select>
   </span>

Then fix the CSS to hide mozilla's dirty arrow with -moz-appearance:window and throw the custom arrow into the span's class 'css-select-moz', but only get it to display on mozilla, like this:

.css-select {
   -moz-appearance:window;
   background-image: url('images/select_arrow.gif');
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-position: right center;
   padding-right: 20px;
}

@-moz-document url-prefix() {
.css-select-moz{
     background-image: url('images/select_arrow.gif');
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-position: right center;
     padding-right: 20px;
  }
} 

Pretty cool for only stumbling across this bug 3 hours ago (I'm new to webdesign and completely self-taught). However, this community has indirectly provided me with so much help, I thought it was about time I give something back.

I have only tested it in firefox (mac) version 18, and then 22 (after I updated).

All feedback is welcome.

How to remove default arrow form select in Firefox (Firefox version 30) and IE

You can try:

select::-ms-expand {
   display: none;
}

for hiding dropdown arrow in IE and for more info.

and for firefox us can use this:

-webkit-appearance: none;
-moz-appearance: none;
 appearance: none;

see this fiddle:
see this link and link2

let me know if you still have issues with arrow

thanks

How to remove the default arrow icon from a dropdown list (select element)?

If you use TailwindCSS
You may take advantage of the appearance-none class.

<select class="appearance-none">
  <option>Yes</option>
  <option>No</option>
  <option>Maybe</option>
</select>

How to remove the arrow from a select element in Firefox

Okay, I know this question is old, but 2 years down the track and mozilla have done nothing.

I've come up with a simple workaround.

This essentially strips all formatting of the select box in firefox and wraps a span element around the select box with your custom style, but should only apply to firefox.

Say this is your select menu:

<select class='css-select'>
  <option value='1'> First option </option>
  <option value='2'> Second option </option>
</select>

And lets assume the css class 'css-select' is:

.css-select {
   background-image: url('images/select_arrow.gif');
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-position: right center;
   padding-right: 20px;
}

In firefox, this would display with the select menu, followed by the ugly firefox select arrow, followed by your nice custom looking one. Not ideal.

Now to get this going in firefox, add a span element around with the class 'css-select-moz':

   <span class='css-select-moz'>
     <select class='css-select'>
       <option value='1'> First option </option>
       <option value='2'> Second option </option>
     </select>
   </span>

Then fix the CSS to hide mozilla's dirty arrow with -moz-appearance:window and throw the custom arrow into the span's class 'css-select-moz', but only get it to display on mozilla, like this:

.css-select {
   -moz-appearance:window;
   background-image: url('images/select_arrow.gif');
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-position: right center;
   padding-right: 20px;
}

@-moz-document url-prefix() {
.css-select-moz{
     background-image: url('images/select_arrow.gif');
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-position: right center;
     padding-right: 20px;
  }
} 

Pretty cool for only stumbling across this bug 3 hours ago (I'm new to webdesign and completely self-taught). However, this community has indirectly provided me with so much help, I thought it was about time I give something back.

I have only tested it in firefox (mac) version 18, and then 22 (after I updated).

All feedback is welcome.

Remove Select arrow on IE

In IE9, it is possible with purely a hack as advised by @Spudley. Since you've customized height and width of the div and select, you need to change div:before css to match yours.

In case if it is IE10 then using below css3 it is possible

select::-ms-expand {
    display: none;
}

However if you're interested in jQuery plugin, try Chosen.js or you can create your own in js.

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