Question

Is it possible for the options of an HTML select element to include HTML tags?

For example, given the following code:

 <select>
    <option value="one"><b>one is bold</b></option>
    <option value="two">two has some <span style='color:red;'>red</span> text</option>
    <option value="three">three is just normal</option>
 </select>

I would like the options to actually render in HTML. In this application I can play with HTML, CSS, JavaScript (including jQuery). And the HTML itself is being rendered via Django (django.form.fields.select).

Answer 1

No, you can’t do this. <option> tags cannot contain any other tags.