How To Create Custom Select Menus with CSS | Linux Today

How To Create Custom Select Menus with CSS

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 3, 2011

“HTML and CSS have come a long way from where they started. In
the 90’s, before CSS was formally introduced, the focus was purely
on the functionality of web pages.

“They looked ugly, but no one really complained since they were
not aware of what promises CSS would bring. The only way to make
the page look beautiful was to use loads of images but the lack of
high speed internet connections prevented developers from using
that approach since it hampered the user’s experience.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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