Default theme (twentyeleven) missing styles for select

[skylarsutton]

The default theme (twentyeleven) styles all input fields / text areas but doesn't apply anything to selects. This creates an inconsistent look and feel.

I've included the manually tweaked version of my styles.css which fixed the issue for me.

[skylarsutton]

Possible patch

[SergeyBiryukov]

Please add a real a diff/patch file, see ​http://codex.wordpress.org/Reporting_Bugs#Patching_Bugs.

[DrewAPicture]

props skylarsutton

[lancewillett]

I think it's better to leave select styling to browsers so that the native OS look and feel comes through for this form element.

[skylarsutton]

a) Have you seen it? It looks awful.

b) The same argument could be made for all form elements. Why are you styling input and textarea... those should be "native" as well.

[lancewillett]

Replying to skylarsutton:

a) Have you seen it? It looks awful.

Every day. :) I use it extensively for my main blogs and have several child themes and customizations.

In my opinion if you feel really strongly about styling extra from elements go for it -- it'd be a great fit for custom CSS in your fork of the theme or child theme.

[skylarsutton]

My first comment was some humor, not an attack.

My real issue is the justification. Why style some form elements and not others? It creates a disjointed final product. The end user expectation is that they slap the style down as a turn key product and everything looks puuurty. The average user isn't going to know/care enough about CSS to hunt down unstyled elements and customize them.

[lancewillett]

Replying to skylarsutton:

My real issue is the justification. Why style some form elements and not others? It creates a disjointed final product. The end user expectation is that they slap the style down as a turn key product and everything looks puuurty. The average user isn't going to know/care enough about CSS to hunt down unstyled elements and customize them.

No worries, and thanks again for your thoughts.

[nacin]

Replying to skylarsutton:

a) Have you seen it? It looks awful.

A screenshot could go a long way to justify something like this.