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Can you have multiple lines in an < option> element?

rated 0 times [ 147] [ 4] / answers: 1 / hits: 44238 / 14 Years ago, thu, january 20, 2011, 12:00:00

Is there a way to have multiple lines in an <option> element?

Like this:

 -------------------------

| Normal <option> element |

 -------------------------

| <option> element broken |

| onto two lines          |

 -------------------------

| Normal <option> element |

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Is there any HTML/CSS approach, or should I use JavaScript?

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answered 14 Years ago davion · Accepted Answer

It's a particular case of displaying HTML tags inside an <option></option> element. As far as I know, browsers behave very differently in this area (Firefox displays even images, other browsers ignore most or all tags) and there isn't a cross-browser solution. You'll probably need to emulate it with JavaScript and a different markup.

At http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110113/option.html they say:

Permitted contents: normal character
data

... which is defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110113/syntax.html#normal-character-data

The spec is hard to understand, as usual, but I understand that you cannot insert a literal < (i.e., an HTML tag such as <br>). I cannot find where it defines the behaviour with blank space but most browsers appear to collapse it.