<div> and <select> tags

html, html-select

Solution

From the specification:

<!ELEMENT SELECT - - (OPTGROUP|OPTION)+ -- option selector -->

i.e. There is an element called "SELECT", the start tag is required, the end tag is required. It's children can be OPTGROUP elements and/or OPTION elements and there must be at least one of them.

Since a DIV is not an OPTGROUP or an OPTION, the answer is no.

Problem

Can I have a `<DIV>` within an HTML `<SELECT>` tag? e.g.: ``` <select tabindex="2" name="agegrp" id="agegrp" > <div> <option value="-1">No preference</option> </div> </select> ```

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