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What values can appear in the “selected” attribute of the “option” tag?

July 7, 2022 by Tarik

HTML5 spec https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/sec-forms.html#the-option-element The selected content attribute is a boolean attribute. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#boolean-attributes : The presence of a boolean attribute on an element represents the true value, and the absence of the attribute represents the false value. If the attribute is present, its value must either be the empty string or a value that is an … Read more

Is it bad to put tags inside tags, only for string manipulation not styling?

June 28, 2022 by Tarik

From the HTML 5spec: Content model: If the element has a label attribute and a value attribute: Nothing. If the element has a label attribute but no value attribute: Text. If the element has no label attribute and is not a child of a datalist element: Text that is not inter-element whitespace. If the element … Read more

Is there a way to apply a CSS style on HTML5 datalist options?

June 19, 2022 by Tarik

Like select elements, the datalist element has very little flexibility in styling. You cannot style any of the suggested terms if that’s what your question was asking. Browsers define their own styles for these elements.