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Styling native components with appearance.
Updated Apr 28, 2026
Short answer
The appearance property allows you to override the OS-level native styling of form controls.
Deep explanation
Setting appearance: none strips away the browser's default styling of checkboxes, radios, and selects, allowing developers to build custom-styled inputs without writing custom semantic JS wrappers.
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