[Bug 14573] Make so you can put <hr> inside <select>. Many times I've seen people use hacks such as <input disabled>--------</input> as a separator/divider in select. For people who want to have a selection with no default value preselected. Example: <select> <opti

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14573

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #3 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-11-01 06:07:44 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: see comment 2

(I'm pretty sure we can't do this for legacy parsing reasons, anyway.)

I seem to recall we had some magic for disabled <option>s whose values only
contained hyphens and spaces at some point... but I don't recall where.
Probably was in WF2 and we lost it in the transfer?

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