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    HTML was not originally designed to produce full blown UIs. The people who designed the select tag likely expected people to use it for a few hard-coded options, not lists with hundreds of items. By the time that kind of thing came under consideration, HTML was rarely hand-edited and so adding it would be mostly pointless. (Since adding something to HTML affects many different browsers. Commented May 24, 2014 at 18:35
  • @StevenBurnap can you copy your answer so I can accept it as correct? The only reason that I've asked is that nowadays especially in chrome the input fields are changing a lot. For example there is input type numeric with up and down, there is input that is validating the email,numbers... e.t.c. and have a tooltip at the top to inform you that your value is incorrect. So that's why I thought that this is an easy UI change, compare to other things that the browsers are already doing. Commented May 24, 2014 at 21:25