Mouseover option of select for IE

Question

I\'m using IE7. I want to have show a description in the page for each option in the select box when the mouse is over the option. So as starting I wrote the code which show

Answer 1

What you are trying to do is not a standard web practice. I'm not saying its wrong, I can see why you'd want to do something like this. I think your answer is to not bother with the select control and try finding or designing a control that works with input elements instead and mimic what 'select' is doing. It wouldn't be that difficult and in the end you would probably have greater control and cross-browser capability.