Components
Select
A choice from a list that is too long to show all at once.
Single select shows the chosen item. Multi-select shows a count, because a list of chosen names quickly outgrows the control.
Watch out. With only two or three options, radios are faster — they show every choice without a click.
Sub-brandTheme
Liverendered from the shipped recipe
States
closed
hover
focus
open
selected
multi
disabled
error
Code
The HTML for the live example above is on the page - use your browser's inspector, or copy the CSS here and the markup from the preview. Load post-ui.css once per site and this component works anywhere.
/* ============================================================================
POST UI System — components
HAND-WRITTEN. Not generated: this file encodes the RULES the components follow,
which is not the same thing as whatever the Figma canvas currently looks like.
The contract it implements (variant axes + reasoning) is synced in components.json.
Import order: tokens.css -> type.css -> components.css
NAMING. Every class is `post-` prefixed. This ships into Webflow projects where
`.button`, `.field`, `.label` or `.text-body` are exactly the classes a site
already has, and an unprefixed collision would silently restyle real content.
Block `post-x` · modifier `post-x--y` · state `is-*`.
THE FOUR RULES EVERYTHING BELOW OBEYS
1. Tokens are named by scale, never by consumer — space/m, stroke/m, icon-size/m
and text/md all mean "the middle step".
2. Strokes are altitude, not component — s detail · m component · l section.
3. Optical padding — outer padding is uniform, the LABEL carries space/xs left and
right, and the gap is 0. Text ends up inset by outer+xs while an icon sits at
outer, which is correct: a glyph carries internal whitespace and text does not.
One recipe covers icon-left, icon-right, both, or neither.
4. Control height comes from the ICON TIER, never from text. Every control label
carries min-height = its icon-size token. Without it the icon becomes the
tallest child and toggling an optional icon grows the control — a chip jumped
28 -> 32px exactly this way. With it, toggling an icon changes width only.
currentColor is load-bearing. Outline/ghost controls bind their label fill AND
their stroke to the same `action` token, so the border is written as
`border-color: currentColor` and one colour change moves both.
============================================================================ */
/* ---- select ---- */
/* Form-scale select; Level Filter is its nav-scale sibling. Display rule: single
select shows the chosen item, multi shows a COUNT ("3 spaces selected") — the
count is content, so the component does not need a variant for it. */
/* Figma pins every Select variant to a FIXED width with the trigger set to FILL — the
box is a stable slot and the VALUE flexes inside it. Without a declared width the
component shrink-wraps wherever it is a flex/grid child, so the box resized on every
pick: "Select a space" -> "The Hall" -> "3 selected" each produced a different width
and shifted whatever sat beside it. The container owns the width; the value never does. */
.post-select { position: relative; width: 100%; }
/* The value is the flexible part, so it truncates rather than pushing the box open.
min-width:0 is required — a flex item's default min-width:auto refuses to shrink
below its content and would defeat the ellipsis. */
.post-select__value {
flex: 1 1 auto;
min-width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.post-select__control {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: space-between;
gap: var(--space-m);
width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: var(--space-m);
border: var(--stroke-m) solid var(--border);
background: var(--surface);
color: var(--text);
font-family: var(--font-post);
font-size: var(--text-sm);
font-weight: 500;
line-height: var(--icon-size-s);
cursor: pointer;
text-align: left;
}
.post-select__control .post-icon { width: var(--icon-size-s); height: var(--icon-size-s); color: var(--action); }
/* One chevron glyph, rotated — not two icons. The icon describes what happens to the
page, not what the widget is called. */
.post-select__control .post-icon { transition: transform 0.15s ease; }
.post-select.is-open .post-select__control .post-icon { transform: rotate(180deg); }
.post-select__control:hover,
.post-select.is-hover .post-select__control {
border-color: var(--hover-ink);
background: var(--hover-surface);
}
.post-select.is-open .post-select__control,
.post-select.is-focus .post-select__control { border-color: var(--action); }
.post-select.is-focus .post-select__control { outline: 2px solid var(--action); outline-offset: 2px; }
.post-select.is-error .post-select__control { border-color: var(--feedback-error-text); background: var(--feedback-error-surface); }
.post-select.is-disabled { opacity: 0.4; pointer-events: none; }
.post-select__panel {
position: absolute;
z-index: 20;
left: 0; right: 0;
margin-top: calc(-1 * var(--stroke-m));
border: var(--stroke-m) solid var(--border);
background: var(--surface);
display: none;
max-height: 16em;
overflow-y: auto;
}
.post-select.is-open .post-select__panel { display: block; }
.post-select__option {
display: block;
width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: var(--space-m);
border: none;
background: none;
text-align: left;
color: var(--text);
font-family: var(--font-post);
font-size: var(--text-sm);
font-weight: 500;
line-height: var(--icon-size-s);
cursor: pointer;
}
.post-select__option:hover,
.post-select__option.is-hover { background: var(--hover-surface); color: var(--hover-ink); }
.post-select__option[aria-selected="true"] { background: var(--action); color: var(--on-action); }