Align text inside a selector - css

Question

I have a selector created as a component:
<my-selector
...
</my-selector>
and this is its css file:
my-selector{
select {
-webkit-appearance: none !important;
-moz-appearance: none;
padding: .5em;
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 2px;
padding: 3px 26px;
}
.select-container {
position:relative;
display: inline;
margin-right: 10px;
}
.select-container:after {
content:"";
position:absolute;
pointer-events: none;
}
.select-container:after {
border-left: 5px solid transparent;
border-right: 5px solid transparent;
top: .5em;
right: .75em;
border-top: 5px solid black;
}
select::-ms-expand {
display: none;
}
}
The problem I've is the distance between the words and the left margin. I've tried margin-left, padding and others in order to remove it or make it smaller but without success.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You added the padding via the css for the selector:
select {
-webkit-appearance: none !important;
-moz-appearance: none;
padding: .5em;
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 2px;
padding: 3px 26px; /* this is the problem, and it's overwriting the padding attribute 4 lines up */
}
you need to remove the first incidence of padding, then set padding to something like:
padding: 3px 26px 3px 5px; /* top right bottom left */