On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote: > Olav Junker Kjær wrote: > > It would be a useful feature if arbitrary HTML was allowed in option > > elements. E.g. items in a dropdown could have different icons. > > Yeah, personally, I think we should look at adding the |icon| attribute > to the <option> element.
We can't allow arbitrary markup in <option> in text/html for legacy reasons. The icon idea seems reasonable for menus of actions, but we're doing with with <menu> now; for drop down lists, most lists in most operating system UIs don't seem to have an icon so I'm not convinced we really want to expose that yet. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'