HTML option element

The <option> HTML element is used to define an item contained in a <select>, an <optgroup>, or a <datalist> element. As such, <option> can represent menu items in popups and other lists of items in an HTML document.

Attributes: disabled If this Boolean attribute is set, this option is not checkable. Often browsers gray out such control and it won’t receive any browsing event, like mouse clicks or focus-related ones. If this attribute is not set, the element can still be disabled if one of its ancestors is a disabled <optgroup> element. label This attribute is text for the label indicating the meaning of the option. If the label attribute isn’t defined, its value is that of the element text content. selected If present, this Boolean attribute indicates that the option is initially selected. If the <option> element is the descendant of a <select> element whose multiple attribute is not set, only one single <option> of this <select> element may have the selected attribute. value The content of this attribute represents the value to be submitted with the form, should this option be selected.