Select Change history
| Date | Changed | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2025 | GOV.UK Frontend v5.9.0 | The |
| Oct 2024 | Guidance | Expanded guidance on writing hint text. |
| Dec 2023 | GOV.UK Frontend v5.0.0 | Updated how the Select Nunjucks macro handles options without a As of 5.0.0, the HTML attribute is not set and the control’s value is the same as the display text of the option, as is the case with native |
| Aug 2023 | Guidance | Added guidance about error messaging. |
| Apr 2023 | GOV.UK Frontend v4.6.0 | Added |
| Jan 2023 | Guidance | Added user research indicating that users can struggle to use select controls. |
| Aug 2022 | GOV.UK Frontend v4.3.0 | Set a minimum width so that an empty Select component does not appear too small before the option list populates. |
| Jun 2022 | GOV.UK Frontend v4.2.0 | Added |
| Jun 2022 | Guidance | Added guidance about using hints. |
| Feb 2022 | GOV.UK Frontend v4.0.1 | Fixed component rendering with a grey background in Firefox. Fixed component rendering with a grey background and blue text in Safari for iOS. |
| Sept 2021 | Guidance | Added guidance about pre-selecting options. |
| Jul 2020 | GOV.UK Frontend v3.8.0 | Updated the form control’s border thickness when in the error state. |
| Nov 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v2.4.0 | Added option to set custom classes on the |
| Oct 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v2.2.0 | Fixed selects with long options growing wider than the parent container. |
| Sept 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v2.0.0 | Updated appearance so that selects are no longer the full width of the parent container. Added parameter to pass custom HTML attributes to select options. |
| Jun 2018 | GOV.UK Frontend v1.0.0 | Component introduced. |