I have a SELECT list with several OPTION elements. Here is my naive approach to styling part of the option text:
Nope. option
s are styled in a way native to the platform, and styling only a part of one doesn't work. (It usually wouldn't be a particularly good idea either.)
Permitted content in the option tag is Text, possibly with escaped characters (like é).MDN doc for more details
But you could always create a Custom select box. Refer the jsFiddle below,
JSFiddle for multi colored selectbox options
// Insert a list item into the unordered list for each select option
for (var i = 0; i < numberOfOptions; i++) {
$('<li />', {
html: $this.children('option').eq(i).text()
.split(' ').join(' <span style="color:red">'),
rel: $this.children('option').eq(i).val()
}).appendTo($list);
}
In some cases I could do that by jQuery. Look here: http://jsfiddle.net/rangine/wegx00La/4/
I used a select box for choosing a glyph icon in bootstrap form. but unfortunately this worked only in Firefox.(I don't test it on all browser. in Chrome not works and in IE! I threw it away.
Html:
This code Only works in Firefox.
<br/>
<select id="myselect">
<option value="_none"> - Select One - </option>
<option value="asterisk">asterisk</option>
<option value="plus">plus</option>
<option value="euro" class="red">euro</option>
<option value="eur">eur</option>
<option value="minus" class="green">minus</option>
<option value="cloud">cloud</option>
<option value="envelope">envelope</option>
<option value="pencil">pencil</option>
<option value="glass">glass</option>
<option value="music">music</option>
<option value="search">search</option>
<option value="heart">heart</option>
<option value="star">star</option>
<option value="star-empty">star-empty</option>
<option value="user">user</option>
<option value="film">film</option>
</select>
<span class="preview"> </span>
jquery:
(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#myselect option').each(function() {
$(this).html('<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-' + $(this).text() + '"></i> ' + $(this).text());
})
});
$('.preview').html(' <i class="preview glyphicon glyphicon-' + $('#myselect').val() + '"></i>');
$('#myselect').change(function() {
$('.preview').html(' <i class="preview glyphicon glyphicon-' + $('#myselect').val() + '"></i>');
});
})(jQuery);
Some CSS:
#myselect {
margin: 40px;
height: 30px;
font-size: 14pt;
}
option.red {
color: red;
}
option.green {
color: green;
}
.preview {
font-size: 20pt;
}
Or you could do it with Bootstrap Drop Downs plus a couple lines of Javascript.
Here is the Bootstrap example with a slight alteration plus a 'lil Javascript:
$(function() {
$('#my-select').find('li').click(function() {
$('#selected').html($(this).html());
});
});
<head>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script class="cssdeck" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Single button -->
<div id='my-select' class="btn-group">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
<span id="selected">Action</span> <span class="caret"></span>
</button>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a href="#">Action <span style='color:red'>like Super Man</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#">Another action</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Something else here</a></li>
<li role="separator" class="divider"></li>
<li><a href="#">Separated link</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
This is more like an answer / workaround to the question closed as a duplicate on other tags rather than styling in particular for <options>.
If you don't mind getting dirty with JavaScript, Select2 provides a very concise way to achieve that. It does use lists for that as well.
Here is HTML
<select id="e1" style="width:300px">
<option value="AL" data-badge="3">Alabama</option>
<option value="WY">Wyoming</option>
</select>
And here is CoffeeScript
$("#e1").select2
theme: "bootstrap"
templateResult: (data) ->
badge = $(data.element).data('badge')
if badge
return $(document.createTextNode(data.text)).add($('<span class="badge pull-right">').text(badge))
data.text
And here is JSFiddle.