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The OPTGROUP element defines a group of choices within a SELECT menu.

The OPTGROUP element defines a group of choices within a SELECT menu. OPTGROUP must contain one or more OPTION elements to define the actual choice

Example:

<select>
  <optgroup label="Swedish Cars">
    <option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
    <option value="saab">Saab</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="German Cars">
    <option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
    <option value="audi">Audi</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>

sources: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/optgroup.html, http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_optgroup.asp

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preselect multiple values using the selectedOptions knockout binding in an select with optgroup

Ello, I've litteraly tried all the options to making a (multiple) selectbox with optgropus, and binding the options/selectedOptions with knockout. There seems to be an issue with the selectedOptions binding. My data seems to be legit, but it just…
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Error using Serge Zab's helper for optgroup dropdowns

I'm trying to work with the optgroup dropdown helper from Serge Zab that can be found here. This is my category table: As you can see I have a category and a category can also be categoryparent from a category. I want to have the parentcategorys as…
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iOS Bug? Unable to change text in a select when focused using jQuery

I am using a select with optgroups for some navigation on mobile devices. I use the optgroup's label to indicate the section it belongs in - and then the option itself to designate the sub-section. The problem is that in pretty much every browser I…
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Populate Select With OptGroup From Two Seperate JSon Objects JQuery

I have two json objects var type = [{"Id":1,"Name":"This is a name"}]; var subType = [{"Id":2,"ParentId":1,"Name":"This is a name"},]; subType.ParentId references the type.Id I want to be able to populate a select in jQuery having ').appendTo('body').append('') .append($('') …
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Convert UL to SELECT w/OPTGROUPs

I'm trying to convert (with jQuery) a multi-level UL into a SELECT dropdown with the nested UL group being wrapped in OPTGROUPSs. I'm messing around with the idea of using this technique to make responsive site menus (think drop-down menus). I've…
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Laravel Form dropdown with optgroup

Let's say I have a collection with categories, while eager loading all descriptiones per category. So this means, each category hasMany descriptions. I want to display all descriptions in a dropdown, while the optgroup label is the category name,…
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Get selectize.js to show optgroup headers

I have a .json file containing US city data. I have successfully pulled the data into my selectize select box, but it does not display the optgroup headers. Here is an excerpt of the .json file: [ [...], [{ "Index": 16246, …
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Create select with otpgroup based on two different data

Hi Friends here two data in one JSON file where I need to create Select option based on country field and show data based on location field "countries": [ { "id": "75", "country": "France" }, { …
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Check if optgroup by id/label exists in jquery?

I have a dropdown, and in another process add optgroups/options to that dropdown, and that part works fine. But I may need to add similar optgroups, with more data, and I want to check for the existence of that optgroup, and if it exists, don't add…
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Jquery bootstrap multiselect optgroup selection

I am using Jquery bootstrap multiselect plugin which seems pretty good and fulfill most of the requirements which i needed. The only additional functionality i want is to add checkbox to OptGroup so if user wants to select complete group they can…
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Show ComboBox group header for Silverlight

I want to show a ComboBox with OPTGROUP style header gruopings in Silverlight. Every website I find (including questions on SO) that sovle this link to an outdated link and, handily, show no code snippets for me to work from. E.g.: So how do I do…
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Jquery, if optgroup does not contain

I need help with the below jQuery, it's not working for me. I want to fire some actions only if does not exist My HTML (which can't be changed):