Sadly, this is all academic because in all commercial work, “designers” demand that you reimplement SELECTs to make them look a very, very specific way “consist

Sadly, this is all academic because in all commercial work, “designers” demand that you reimplement SELECTs to make them look a very, very specific way “consistently across every OS, for our branding’s sake,” leading to devs implementing them as a soup of 42 nested DIVs, an SVG or two, and 12 event handlers, and they still don’t act right when the dropdown doesn’t have enough space below it in the viewport.