Question

is there anyway for the title in option tag to be displayed always?

<select>
<option title="sometitle" value="">1</option>
</select>

any ideas please?

Thanks

Answer 1

I am restricting the size of select, so I want the user be able to see long text that has been truncated in the title tag, as it gets disoplayed when the user hovers the mouse on the option

Just give it a width with help of a little CSS. In real webbrowsers the dropdown list width will automatically expand to the largest option when you open it. Only in a certain webbrowser developed by a team in Redmond the dropdown list width won’t expand like that. It will hide large options which is indeed very hairpulling.

In that browser, you can use Javascript to control the width during the desired events. You can find a jQuery based example in this answer: Dropdownlist width in IE