Re: Form select gadgets

In article <20140109100751.GD25556@pepperfish.net>,
Rob Kendrick <rjek@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:48:38PM +0000, Chris Young wrote:
> > Is there any way of adding a down arrow to the form select gadgets,
> > maybe using CSS?

> Yes. Using the pseudo elements before and after. But NetSurf doesn't
> support these yet :) (I've looked into this before)

It's not really the right answer anyway, because it could break author CSS.

What we should do is have a core select widget, much like the textarea
widget in desktop/textarea.{c|h}. The select widget should do its own
rendering and mouse handling, rather than abusing an html render box for
the purpose.

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Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/