There are a whole host of new and exciting CSS features that were rolled out in 2025, many of which are supported by the latest editions of Chromium browsers already in 2026. A list of these new features are described in the CSS Wrapped 2025 article by the Chrome dev team.
Today we'll be looking primarily at the new options for <select> elements and how they give developers much more control over the element and remove the need for unwieldy JavaScript solutions that would often be used to bring drop-down boxes into alignment with the rest of a site's theme. Many JS solutions that have been popularized over the years are either so heavy that they become a problem for optimization (especially an issue for mobile users), or so light that they didn't properly handle all of the native functionality of a <select> element resulting in lost accessibility functionality.
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