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HTML select, option and optgroup tag and element

1. HTML select element is used to represent a scrolled listbox in an HTML form. It starts with <select> tag and ends with </select> tag.

2. HTML option element is used to represent a different values of a scrolled listbox in an HTML form. It starts with <option> tag and ends with </option> tag.

3. HTML optgroup element is used to represent a different groups of values presented by option element in an HTML form. It starts with <optgroup> tag and ends with </optgroup> tag.

Since usage of select, optgroup and option elements are very much interrelated, we have discussed all these three elements together.

Syntax

<select><optgroup><select>Some Text</select>............</optgroup>........... </select>

Category

HTML select, option and optgroup elements belong to HTML forms.

Whether both start and end tags are required

For all these elements, start and end tags are required.

Attributes of select element

name, size, multiple.

Identifiers

id, class.

language information and text direction

lang, dir.

Title

Title.

Style

Style.

Disabled input controls

disabled.

Tabbing navigation

tabindex.

Events

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup.

Attributes of optgroup element

label.

Identifiers

id, class.

language information and text direction

lang, dir.

Title

Title.

Style

Style.

Disabled input controls

disabled.

Events

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove,onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup.

Attributes of option element

selected , value, label.

Identifiers

id, class.

language information and text direction

lang, dir.

Title

Title.

Style

Style.

Disabled input controls

disabled.

Events

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove,onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup.

Supported doctypes

HTML 4.01 strict, HTML 4.01 transitional, HTML 4.01 frameset.

Example of using HTML select, optgroup and option element

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>HTML select, option, optgroup tag example - HTML tutorial | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="example" action="html-select-option-optgroup-example.html" >
Select one or more sections:
<select name="languages" multiple>
<optgroup label="Server_side">
<option>PHP</option>
<option>ASP</option>
<option>Ruby on Rails </option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Client_side">
<option>JavaScript</option>
<option>VB Script </option>
</optgroup>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Result

html select optgroup and option element

View this example in a separate browser window

html-select-option-optgroup-example

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