diff --git a/resources/css/components.css b/resources/css/components.css
index ccf4f998..e185a2bf 100644
--- a/resources/css/components.css
+++ b/resources/css/components.css
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 @import './components/input.css';
 @import './components/password.css';
 @import './components/textarea.css';
+@import './components/select.css';
 
 /* Containment */
 
diff --git a/resources/css/components/field.css b/resources/css/components/field.css
index 89648471..dc54b777 100644
--- a/resources/css/components/field.css
+++ b/resources/css/components/field.css
@@ -138,59 +138,6 @@
         transition: background-color 604800s, color 604800s;
     }
 
-    /* A select covers its whole field — out over the padding and the leading icon at
-       the start, under the arrow to the end — and its own padding puts the value back
-       where it was. So a press anywhere on the field opens it, and the list, which
-       the browser anchors to the select, is the field's width (components/menu.css). */
-    select[data-md-field-control] {
-        --field-end: calc(var(--field-icon) + var(--field-gap) + var(--field-pad));
-
-        appearance: none;
-        cursor: pointer;
-        margin-inline: calc(-1 * var(--field-start)) calc(-1 * var(--field-end));
-        padding-inline: var(--field-start) var(--field-end);
-    }
-
-    select[data-md-field-control]:disabled {
-        cursor: default;
-    }
-
-    /* Where the browser has a customizable select, the closed select is its own
-       button: without the border, padding and arrow that button brings, it is the
-       same field as before. While its list is open the field reads as focused —
-       said from `:open`, because focus inside the list is in the top layer — and
-       the arrow turns over, as the searchable choices' does. */
-    @supports (appearance: base-select) {
-        select[data-md-field-control] {
-            display: flex;
-            align-items: center;
-            border: 0;
-            padding-block: 0;
-            border-radius: 0;
-            background: transparent;
-            white-space: nowrap;
-            overflow: hidden;
-            text-overflow: ellipsis;
-        }
-
-        select[data-md-field-control]::picker-icon {
-            display: none;
-        }
-
-        [data-md-field-box]:has(select[data-md-field-control]:open) {
-            --field-edge: var(--md-sys-color-primary);
-            --field-ink: var(--md-sys-color-primary);
-
-            [data-md-field-outline] {
-                border-width: 2px;
-            }
-        }
-
-        [data-md-field]:has(select[data-md-field-control]:open) [data-md-field-arrow] {
-            rotate: 180deg;
-        }
-    }
-
     /* `<x-file>`: the browser's own "No file chosen" line is transparent (the caller shows what was
        chosen), and its button is a tonal pill — the thing to press. */
     input[type='file'][data-md-field-control] {
diff --git a/resources/css/components/select.css b/resources/css/components/select.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c383f197
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/css/components/select.css
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * <x-select>: the native <select> in the text field's chrome, drawn as M3's exposed dropdown menu
+ * (resources/views/components/select.blade.php).
+ *
+ * The chrome is the field's (components/field.css); this file is what a <select> changes in it. The
+ * select covers its whole field, so a press anywhere opens it and the list the browser anchors to
+ * it is the field's width. Where the browser has the customizable select (`appearance:
+ * base-select`), the closed select loses the button chrome that brings, the field reads as focused
+ * while the list is open, and the arrow turns over. The open list itself is M3's menu, drawn by
+ * components/menu.css.
+ *
+ * The field's root carries `data-md-select`.
+ */
+
+@layer material.reset, material.tokens, material.base, material.layout, material.components, material.text, material.visibility;
+
+@import './field.css';
+@import './icon.css';
+/* TODO(step 36): @import './menu.css' once the menu leaves Tailwind (actions stream); its select rules draw the open list. */
+
+@layer material.components {
+    /* A select covers its whole field — out over the padding and the leading icon at
+       the start, under the arrow to the end — and its own padding puts the value back
+       where it was. So a press anywhere on the field opens it, and the list, which
+       the browser anchors to the select, is the field's width (components/menu.css). */
+    select[data-md-field-control] {
+        --field-end: calc(var(--field-icon) + var(--field-gap) + var(--field-pad));
+
+        appearance: none;
+        cursor: pointer;
+        margin-inline: calc(-1 * var(--field-start)) calc(-1 * var(--field-end));
+        padding-inline: var(--field-start) var(--field-end);
+    }
+
+    select[data-md-field-control]:disabled {
+        cursor: default;
+    }
+
+    /* Where the browser has a customizable select, the closed select is its own
+       button: without the border, padding and arrow that button brings, it is the
+       same field as before. While its list is open the field reads as focused —
+       said from `:open`, because focus inside the list is in the top layer — and
+       the arrow turns over, as the searchable choices' does. */
+    @supports (appearance: base-select) {
+        select[data-md-field-control] {
+            display: flex;
+            align-items: center;
+            border: 0;
+            padding-block: 0;
+            border-radius: 0;
+            background: transparent;
+            white-space: nowrap;
+            overflow: hidden;
+            text-overflow: ellipsis;
+        }
+
+        select[data-md-field-control]::picker-icon {
+            display: none;
+        }
+
+        [data-md-field-box]:has(select[data-md-field-control]:open) {
+            --field-edge: var(--md-sys-color-primary);
+            --field-ink: var(--md-sys-color-primary);
+
+            [data-md-field-outline] {
+                border-width: 2px;
+            }
+        }
+
+        [data-md-field]:has(select[data-md-field-control]:open) [data-md-field-arrow] {
+            rotate: 180deg;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/resources/views/components/select.blade.php b/resources/views/components/select.blade.php
index 16da2943..3f56a2d1 100644
--- a/resources/views/components/select.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/components/select.blade.php
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
      `options` as a list of `['id' => …, 'name' => …]` (`'disabled' => true` greys one out),
      `option-value` and `option-label` to read other keys, and a `placeholder` that becomes the
      first option, valued `placeholder-value` (empty by default). Or pass `<option>`s in the slot.
-     `label`, `hint`, `icon`, `variant`, `size`. --}}
+     `label`, `hint`, `icon`, `variant`, `size`. The field's root carries `data-md-select`; what a
+     select changes in the field's chrome is resources/css/components/select.css. --}}
 
 @props([
     'label' => null,
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@
     $fieldIconSize = ['sm' => 20, 'xs' => 16][$size] ?? 24;
 @endphp
 
-<x-livewire-material::field :$id :$label :$hint :hint-class="$hintClass" :$messages :$icon :$size :$variant floated :class="$attributes->get('class')">
+<x-livewire-material::field :$id :$label :$hint :hint-class="$hintClass" :$messages :$icon :$size :$variant floated :class="$attributes->get('class')" data-md-select>
     <select
         {{ $attributes->except(['class', 'id']) }}
         id="{{ $id }}"
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Components/FieldTest.php b/tests/Feature/Components/FieldTest.php
index 60a933d8..d0abd905 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Components/FieldTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Components/FieldTest.php
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ it('draws a native select whose label always floats', function () {
 
     expect($html)
         ->toContain('data-md-floated')
+        ->toContain('data-md-select')
+        ->toMatch('/<select(?=[^>]*data-md-field-control)[^>]*>/')
         ->toContain('<select')
         ->toContain('wire:model="hours"')
         ->toContain('<option value="">Choose…</option>')
@@ -266,3 +268,13 @@ it('draws what a textarea changes in the field from its own stylesheet', functio
         ->and((string) file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../../../resources/css/components/field.css'))->not->toContain('textarea[')
         ->and((string) file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../../../resources/css/components.css'))->toContain("@import './components/textarea.css';");
 });
+
+it('draws what a select changes in the field from its own stylesheet', function () {
+    $css = (string) file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../../../resources/css/components/select.css');
+
+    expect($css)->toContain("@import './field.css';")
+        ->toContain('@supports (appearance: base-select)')
+        ->toContain('select[data-md-field-control]:open')
+        ->and((string) file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../../../resources/css/components/field.css'))->not->toContain('select[')
+        ->and((string) file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../../../resources/css/components.css'))->toContain("@import './components/select.css';");
+});