{"id":2144663,"date":"2011-06-21T23:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T23:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/styling-sidebar-widget-dropdowns\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T00:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T00:59:55","slug":"styling-sidebar-widget-dropdowns","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/styling-sidebar-widget-dropdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Styling Sidebar Widget Dropdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to style the default dropdown widgets for both &#8220;categories&#8221; and &#8220;archives&#8221;. I would like to suppress the title (which I know how to do) and change the default &#8220;select category&#8221; to instead by the title of the dropdown, which in the default WordPress instance would be &#8220;Categories&#8221;. I actually want to use a completely different term &#8220;sections&#8221; instead of categories. Pretty sure I can style the look of the dropdown items, but wasn&#8217;t sure how to replace the &#8220;Select Category&#8221; with the term &#8220;sections&#8221;<br \/>\nFor a visual of what I&#8217;m trying to do: http:\/\/www.studio678.com\/images\/dropdownScreenGrabs.gif<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2144663","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-css","topic-tag-dropdown","topic-tag-style","topic-tag-widget"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2144663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2144663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}