Are Multi-Line Options in HTML Select Tags Possible

Are Multi-line Options in Html Select Tags Possible?

It is not possible using html select control.

You can use a div that can act as a dropdown list using JavaScript and css.

How can I build a select with multiline options?

<option> tags have limited styling capabilities and do not support formatting.

You can use a JavaScript-based alternative. There are plenty out there if you look around.

HTML select option multiline value

Please try jQuery-Selectric this plugin which possibly solve your issue.

Line Break in HTML Select Option?

No, browsers don't provide this formatting option.

You could probably fake it with some checkboxes with <label>s, and JS to turn it into a fly out menu.

Can you have multiple lines in an option element?

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.

Can an Option in a Select tag carry multiple values?

One way to do this, first one an array, 2nd an object:

    <select name="">
<option value='{"num_sequence":[0,1,2,3]}'>Option one</option>
<option value='{"foo":"bar","one":"two"}'>Option two</option>
</select>


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