I am working on a web form that has Optgroup in it, and the first
time I realized browsers render this attribute differently.
I have something like this:
<optgroup label="United States">
<option label="CA" value="California">California</option>
</optgroup>
In Firefox, it display: California
In Safari and Opera, it displays: CA
p/s. Haven't check on IE yet.
According to w3c's html spec
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#form-labels
I made an example page with markup copied from the above page
http://lotusfromthemud.com/option.html
represents the following grouping:
None
PortMaster 3
3.7.1
3.7
3.5
PortMaster 2
3.7
3.5
IRX
3.7R
3.5R
In 17.6.1 Pre-selected options, scolled down to the end of 17.6.1,
It says: A graphical user agent might render this as : (screenshot
from old Netscape I think)
Gecko based browsers are graphical user agents yet Safari and Opera
are not? (!!!)
Screen reader isn't graphic user agent, so it will read 'CA" instead
of 'California'?
It's quite annoying if I have to add :
<option label="California" value="California">California</option>
tee
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