Designing select tag

Question

I am trying to design a Select tag as shown in the below figure:

Somehow I managed to design it by wrapping the select tag in a div. but the problem is that when I click the designed arrow, the select tag is not functioning or showing all the lists.

What I am expecting is that when I click on the arrow, the select tag should show all the Options. which is not happening because the arrow section is generated using the parent wrapper elements pseudo elements. I haven't used pseudo element selectors select tag because it seems to be not working.

I can solve this issue using background-image to the parent wrapper but as I have full rights to change the html as I can, I am looking for better approach without using images or javascript i.e using just CSS.

Here is the fiddle.

<div class="select-wrapper">
    <select>
        <option>EEE</option>
        <option>ECE</option>
        <option>EIE</option>
    </select>
</div>

.select-wrapper {
    display:inline-block;
    border:1px solid #bbbbbb;
    position:relative;
    width:120px;
    -webkit-border-radius:5px;
    -moz-border-radius:5px;
    border-radius:5px;
    margin-top: 10px;
}
.select-wrapper:before{
    content: "";
    position:absolute;
    right: 5px;
    top:8px;
    border-width: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: #666666 transparent  transparent  transparent ;
    z-index:3;
}
.select-wrapper:after {
    content:"";
    display:block;
    position:absolute;
    top:0px;
    bottom:0px;
    width:20px;
    right:0px;
    border-left:1px solid #bababa;
    background-color:#ededed;
    -webkit-border-top-right-radius:5px;
    -moz-border-top-right-radius:5px;
    border-top-right-radius:5px;
    -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:5px;
    -moz-border-bottom-right-radius:5px;
    border-bottom-right-radius:5px;
}
select {
    width:100%;
    background-color:#ededed;
    border:none;
    outline:none;
    padding:0px;
    margin:0px;
    position:relative;
}

Answer 1

Add pointer-events:none; to your pseudo element classes.

FIDDLE

NB: IE10- doesn't support the pointer-events property (caniuse says that IE11 will, though)

So for IE:

either you'll have to settle with the arrow not being click-able or

you could use use Modernizr to detect whether pointer-events is supported - and if not (IE10-) - revert to the standard built in arrow. (by not using your special styling classes in this case)

.select-wrapper:before{
    content: "";
    position:absolute;
    right: 5px;
    top:8px;
    border-width: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: #666666 transparent  transparent  transparent ;
    z-index:3;
    pointer-events:none; /* <-- */
}
.select-wrapper:after {
    content:"";
    display:block;
    position:absolute;
    top:0px;
    bottom:0px;
    width:20px;
    right:0px;
    border-left:1px solid #bababa;
    background-color:#ededed;
    -webkit-border-top-right-radius:5px;
    -moz-border-top-right-radius:5px;
    border-top-right-radius:5px;
    -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:5px;
    -moz-border-bottom-right-radius:5px;
    border-bottom-right-radius:5px;
    pointer-events:none; /* <-- */
}

Answer 2

Using :after, :before pseudo creates a virtual element and you are overlaying that over your select box, and hence you cannot trigger your select element. The best thing to do is to use background-image here.. I've made the below from scratch, you can check it out.

Demo

.select_wrap {
    width: 180px;  /* Make sure it is less than the select width */
    overflow: hidden;  /* Hide default arrow */
    border: 2px solid #515151;
    border-radius: 5px;
}

select {
    width: 220px; /* Your wish, make sure it overflows parent */
    padding: 5px;
    border: 0;
    background: #f5f5f5; /* Fall back */
    background: url(http://s2.postimg.org/s44rm4vbp/Untitled_1.png), linear-gradient(to bottom,  #f5f5f5 0%,#f6f6f6 47%,#dddddd 100%);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-size: 30px 30px, auto auto;
    background-position: 150px 0, center center;
}

Answer 3

I used a css3 property.

    pointer-events:none

Check the fiddle