HTML Select Option, text formatting

There is currently no support for nested HTML tags within options. The closest formatting element you can use is <optgroup> which will group options into sections.

What you could do is use a javascript replacement like Select2 or Chosen to style the elements. It isn't native, but it does support HTML.

The answer is no.

As you can see on MDN:

Permitted content: Text with eventually escaped characters (like é).

There are alternatives combining other tags, but not select and option.

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For further reading:

• Select boxes with HTML inside each option.

• jQuery .customSelect()

• A custom select for @twitter bootstrap using button dropdown.

As the specification "4.10.12 The option element" states is the content model of an <option>-element text only.