Aaron GustafsonApr 24
This is exactly the sort of UI work I love seeing: ambitious, polished, and still rooted in native controls and progressive enhancement. https://nerdy.dev/nice-select
Nice Select · February 3, 2026

Building a modern custom select with base-select.

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Show threadDave Everitt

@Aaron when I used to teach this stuff, I had two rules:

1. Is it accessible (AIM)?
2. Is it supported in all major browsers today?

The rest is experimentation at best and CCS complication at worst.

Apr 24 at 10:47amMastodon for iOS
Show threadAaron GustafsonApr 24

@cubeExplorer Yes, it’s accessible — as long as you don’t mess screw up the CSS — it’s a `select`.

It’s supported in Chromium and Safari Technical Preview with Firefox working on it too.

Checks both boxes, plus it’s a progressive enhancement that doesn’t sacrifice the experience in browsers that don’t support. And it’s way better than a JS-driven faux-select on pretty much every level.

Show threadDave EverittApr 30
@Aaron totally in agreement re better than "faux-js-select" :-)