Select Option Padding Not Working in Chrome

Is there any way to add padding to select options via CSS?

Styling to select option is very much limited as to maintain a coherence and consistency among all the application in the operating system thus the browser are ought to restrict the style of some basic elements like in your case option tag.

The restriction depends browser to browser, like padding and even margin of option tag works in the Mozilla Firefox while it doesn't work with Chrome.

If it is very much necessary in you website to style the option tag then I suggest you to use some jQuery plugin (you can also make a drop down of your own, its simple).

Select options dropdown not working on chrome

You shouldn't attach click events directly to <option>s. The way you get the selected option is by listening for the change event on the <select>.

After the change, this in your openCity function, refers to the <select>. I'm getting the selected text like this:

  this.options[this.selectedIndex].text // Paris, London, etc.

These values match up with the ids of your .tabcontent <div>s. Then we show the content.

  document.getElementById(
    this.options[this.selectedIndex].text
  ).style.display = "block";

document.querySelector('.tab').addEventListener('change', openCity);
function openCity(evt) {  var i, tabcontent, tablinks;  tabcontent = document.getElementsByClassName("tabcontent");  for (i = 0; i < tabcontent.length; i++) {    tabcontent[i].style.display = "none";  }  tablinks = document.getElementsByClassName("tablinks");  for (i = 0; i < tablinks.length; i++) {    tablinks[i].className = tablinks[i].className.replace(" active", "");  }    document.getElementById(    this.options[this.selectedIndex].text  ).style.display = "block";
  evt.currentTarget.className += " active";}

body {  font-family: Arial;}
.tab {  overflow: hidden;  border: 1px solid #ccc;  background-color: #f1f1f1;}
.tab option {  background-color: inherit;  float: left;  border: none;  outline: none;  cursor: pointer;  padding: 14px 16px;  transition: 0.3s;  font-size: 17px;}
.tab option:hover {  background-color: #ddd;}
.tab option.active {  background-color: #ccc;}
.tabcontent {  display: none;  padding: 6px 12px;  -webkit-animation: fadeEffect 1s;  animation: fadeEffect 1s;}
@-webkit-keyframes fadeEffect {  from {    opacity: 0;  }  to {    opacity: 1;  }}
@keyframes fadeEffect {  from {    opacity: 0;  }  to {    opacity: 1;  }}

<select class="tab">  <option value="london" class="tablinks">London</option>  <option value="paris" class="tablinks">Paris</option></select>

<div id="London" class="tabcontent">  <h3>London</h3>  <p>London is the capital city of England.</p></div>
<div id="Paris" class="tabcontent">  <h3>Paris</h3>  <p>Paris is the capital of France.</p></div>

Why won't padding-left in select box options show in Chrome but works in FF?

Found the answer. Sadly chrome doesn't support giving styles to option.

Select Option Padding Not Working in Chrome

Is there any way to add padding to select options via CSS?

Select options dropdown not working on chrome

Why won't padding-left in select box options show in Chrome but works in FF?

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