- From: Will Levine <wlevine@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:55:14 -0400
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:59:58 -0400, levik <levikcom at gmail.com> wrote: > > I think the web forms 2.0 spec should include support for nesting > OPTGROUP tags inside of a SELECT element. Current OPTGROUP > specification for some reason limits grouping to one level, which > allows UAs to implement it in a fairly useless way (by inserting a > non-selectable line item into the menu) > > Nesting OPTGROUPs would allow hierarchical menu structures to be > implemented for single-line SELECTs, and tree-like structures to be > shown in multi-line select (ones with SIZE="x"). > Originally the spec allowed nested OPTGROUPs, but this was removed because excessive submenus are considered to be bad UI. See http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-June/000316.html -Will Levine
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