diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/page_bundles/_ide_theme_overrides.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/page_bundles/_ide_theme_overrides.scss
index 093cba3560f6db79493a17f47fd56b5e7e1dec4e..84ea2e6d02a21cbcf70d08c155e47a8d9fdce463 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/page_bundles/_ide_theme_overrides.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/page_bundles/_ide_theme_overrides.scss
@@ -241,7 +241,6 @@
   .btn-default:not(.gl-button),
   .dropdown,
   .dropdown-menu-toggle {
-    background-color: var(--ide-input-background, $white) !important;
     color: var(--ide-input-color, $gl-text-color) !important;
     border-color: var(--ide-btn-default-border, $border-color);
   }
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/skr-ide.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/skr-ide.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0af94cc078336c96edf11563c14fb433a5cd5e7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/skr-ide.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Removed ugly border around ellipsis dropdown Gitlab IDE
+merge_request: 53963
+author: Shubham Kumar @imskr
+type: fixed