HTML Learning:
The HTML Elements reference.
"optgroup" - html element
- This element defines a group of choices within a SELECT menu.
- Starttag <optgroup> is Required and endtag </optgroup> is Required
- The element must contain one or more 'option' elements to define the actual choices.
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Browsers that support the optgroup - element :
Element "optgroup" example:
<html>
<body>
<form method="post" action="#">
<p>
<label for="position">Position in the Company?</label><br />
<select name="city" id="question">
<optgroup label="Administration">
<option value="1">Director (CEO)</option>
<option value="2">Finance Manager</option>
<option value="3">Communications Manager</option>
<option value="4">HR Manage</option>
<option value="5">Contract Manager </option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Project">
<option value="6">Graphic Designer</option>
<option value="7">Team Leader</option>
<option value="8">IT Developers</option>
<option value="9">Technical Architects</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Attributes:
class , dir , disabled , id , label (required), lang , style , title
Attribute "class" value(s): A list of style class names that must be separated by white space characters.
Attribute "dir" value(s): ltr or rtl
Attribute "disabled" value(s): disabled
Attribute "id" value(s): unique name
Attribute "label" value(s): text text
Attribute "lang" value(s): language-code
Attribute "style" value(s): style
Attribute "title" value(s): text
class , dir , disabled , id , label (required), lang , style , title
Attribute "class" value(s): A list of style class names that must be separated by white space characters.
- This attribute assigns a style class name or set of style class names to an element. Any number of elements may be assigned the same class name or names.
- You will find more about this in the CSS learning on this site.
Attribute "dir" value(s): ltr or rtl
- Specifies the base direction of directionally neutral text in an element's content and attribute values. It also specifies the directionality of tables.
Attribute value | description |
---|---|
ltr | Left-to-right text or table. |
rtl | Right-to-left text or table. |
Attribute "disabled" value(s): disabled
- When set for a form control, this boolean attribute disables the control for user input.
- Disabled controls do not receive focus. Disabled controls are skipped in tabbing navigation.
Attribute "id" value(s): unique name
- This attribute assigns an identification name to an element. This name must be unique in a document
- Id is often used when one wants to search for an item using javascript or vbscript.
Attribute "label" value(s): text text
- This attribute specifies the label for the option group or option Specifies the label for the option group.
Attribute "lang" value(s): language-code
- Specifies the base language of an element's attribute values and text content.
Lang code | Name of Language |
---|---|
aa | Afar |
ab | Abkhazian |
af | Afrikaans |
ak | Akan |
sq | Albanian |
am | Amharic |
ar | Arabic |
an | Aragonese |
hy | Armenian |
as | Assamese |
av | Avaric |
ae | Avestan |
ay | Aymara |
az | Azerbaijani |
ba | Bashkir |
bm | Bambara |
be | Belarusian |
bn | Bengali |
bh | Bihari languages |
bi | Bislama |
bo | Tibetan |
bs | Bosnian |
br | Breton |
bg | Bulgarian |
my | Burmese |
ca | Catalan; Valencian |
cs | Czech |
ch | Chamorro |
ce | Chechen |
zh | Chinese |
cu | Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic |
cv | Chuvash |
kw | Cornish |
co | Corsican |
cr | Cree |
cy | Welsh |
cs | Czech |
da | Danish |
de | German |
dv | Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian |
nl | Dutch; Flemish |
dz | Dzongkha |
el | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
en | English |
eo | Esperanto |
et | Estonian |
eu | Basque |
ee | Ewe |
fo | Faroese |
fa | Persian |
fj | Fijian |
fi | Finnish |
fr | French |
fr | French |
fy | Western Frisian |
ff | Fulah |
ka | Georgian |
de | German |
gd | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic |
ga | Irish |
gl | Galician |
gv | Manx |
el | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
gn | Guarani |
gu | Gujarati |
ht | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
ha | Hausa |
he | Hebrew |
hz | Herero |
hi | Hindi |
ho | Hiri Motu |
hr | Croatian |
hu | Hungarian |
hy | Armenian |
ig | Igbo |
is | Icelandic |
io | Ido |
ii | Sichuan Yi; Nuosu |
iu | Inuktitut |
ie | Interlingue; Occidental |
ia | Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) |
id | Indonesian |
ik | Inupiaq |
is | Icelandic |
it | Italian |
jv | Javanese |
ja | Japanese |
kl | Kalaallisut; Greenlandic |
kn | Kannada |
ks | Kashmiri |
ka | Georgian |
kr | Kanuri |
kk | Kazakh |
km | Central Khmer |
ki | Kikuyu; Gikuyu |
rw | Kinyarwanda |
ky | Kirghiz; Kyrgyz |
kv | Komi |
kg | Kongo |
ko | Korean |
kj | Kuanyama; Kwanyama |
ku | Kurdish |
lo | Lao |
la | Latin |
lv | Latvian |
li | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish |
ln | Lingala |
lt | Lithuanian |
lb | Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch |
lu | Luba-Katanga |
lg | Ganda |
mk | Macedonian |
mh | Marshallese |
ml | Malayalam |
mi | Maori |
mr | Marathi |
ms | Malay |
mk | Macedonian |
mg | Malagasy |
mt | Maltese |
mn | Mongolian |
mi | Maori |
ms | Malay |
my | Burmese |
na | Nauru |
nv | Navajo; Navaho |
nr | Ndebele, South; South Ndebele |
nd | Ndebele, North; North Ndebele |
ng | Ndonga |
ne | Nepali |
nl | Dutch; Flemish |
nn | Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian |
nb | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
no | Norwegian |
ny | Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja |
oc | Occitan (post 1500) |
oj | Ojibwa |
or | Oriya |
om | Oromo |
os | Ossetian; Ossetic |
pa | Panjabi; Punjabi |
fa | Persian |
pi | Pali |
pl | Polish |
pt | Portuguese |
ps | Pushto; Pashto |
qu | Quechua |
rm | Romansh |
ro | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
ro | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
rn | Rundi |
ru | Russian |
sg | Sango |
sa | Sanskrit |
si | Sinhala; Sinhalese |
sk | Slovak |
sk | Slovak |
sl | Slovenian |
se | Northern Sami |
sm | Samoan |
sn | Shona |
sd | Sindhi |
so | Somali |
st | Sotho, Southern |
es | Spanish; Castilian |
sq | Albanian |
sc | Sardinian |
sr | Serbian |
ss | Swati |
su | Sundanese |
sw | Swahili |
sv | Swedish |
ty | Tahitian |
ta | Tamil |
tt | Tatar |
te | Telugu |
tg | Tajik |
tl | Tagalog |
th | Thai |
bo | Tibetan |
ti | Tigrinya |
to | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
tn | Tswana |
ts | Tsonga |
tk | Turkmen |
tr | Turkish |
tw | Twi |
ug | Uighur; Uyghur |
uk | Ukrainian |
ur | Urdu |
uz | Uzbek |
ve | Venda |
vi | Vietnamese |
vo | Volapük |
cy | Welsh |
wa | Walloon |
wo | Wolof |
xh | Xhosa |
yi | Yiddish |
yo | Yoruba |
za | Zhuang; Chuang |
zh | Chinese |
zu | Zulu |
Attribute "style" value(s): style
- Specifies style sheet (CSS) information for the current element.The syntax of the value of the style attribute is determined by the default style sheet language.
- You will find more about this in the CSS learning on this site.
Attribute "title" value(s): text
- This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it is set.
Attribute "title" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>title attribute</title>
</head>
<body >
<h1 title="Heading 1">This is a Heading 1</h1>
<h2 title="Heading 2">This is a Heading 2</h2>
<h3 title="Heading 3">This is a Heading 3</h3>
<h4 title="Heading 4">This is a Heading 4</h4>
<h5 title="Heading 5">This is a Heading 5</h5>
<h6 title="Heading 6">This is a Heading 6</h6>
</body>
</html>
Events:
onclick , ondblclick , onkeydown , onkeypress , onkeyup , onmousedown , onmousemove , onmouseout , onmouseover , onmouseup
Event "onclick" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "ondblclick" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "onkeydown" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "onkeypress" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "onkeyup" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "onmousedown" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "onmousemove" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "onmouseout" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "onmouseover" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
Event "onmouseup" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
onclick , ondblclick , onkeydown , onkeypress , onkeyup , onmousedown , onmousemove , onmouseout , onmouseover , onmouseup
Event "onclick" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onclick event occurs when the pointing device button is clicked over an element.
Attribute "onclick" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onclick Event attribute</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onclick="alert('you click on th body text')" >
The onclick event occurs when the pointing device
button is clicked over an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "ondblclick" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The ondblclick event occurs when the pointing device button is double clicked over an element.
Attribute "ondblclick" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>ondblclick Event attribute</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
ondblclick="alert('you double-click on th body text')" >
The ondblclick event occurs when the pointing
device button is double clicked over an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "onkeydown" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onkeydown event occurs when a key is pressed down over an element.
Attribute "onkeydown" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onkeydown Event attribute</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onkeydown="alert('you have pressed a key down')" >
The onkeydown event occurs when a
key is pressed down over an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "onkeypress" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onkeypress event occurs when a key is pressed and released over an element.
Attribute "onkeypress" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onkeypress Event attribute</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onkeypress="alert('you have pressed and released a key')" >
The onkeypress event occurs when a key is
pressed and released over an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "onkeyup" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onkeyup event occurs when a key is released over an element.
Attribute "onkeyup" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onkeyup Event attribute</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onkeyup="alert('A key is released over an element')" >
The onkeyup event occurs when a key is
released over an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "onmousedown" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onmousedown event occurs when the pointing device button is pressed over an element.
Attribute "onmousedown" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onmouseup Event attribute</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onmouseup="alert('The mouse button is pressed down')" >
The onmouseup event occurs when the pointing
device button is released over an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "onmousemove" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onmousemove event occurs when the pointing device is moved while it is over an element.
Attribute "onmousemove" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onmousemove Event attribute</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onmousemove="document.body.text='red'" >
The onmousemove event occurs when the
pointing device is moved while it is over an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "onmouseout" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onmouseout event occurs when the pointing device is moved away from an element.
Attribute "onmouseout" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onmouseover and onmouseout Event attributes</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onmouseover="document.body.text='red'"
onmouseout="document.body.text='black'" >
The onmouseover event occurs when the
pointing device is moved onto an element.<br>
The onmouseout event occurs when the
pointing device is moved away from an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "onmouseover" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onmouseover event occurs when the pointing device is moved onto an element.
Attribute "onmouseover" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onmouseover and onmouseout Event attributes</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onmouseover="document.body.text='red'"
onmouseout="document.body.text='black'" >
The onmouseover event occurs when the
pointing device is moved onto an element.<br>
The onmouseout event occurs when the
pointing device is moved away from an element.
</body>
</html>
Event "onmouseup" value(s): One or more script statements each ended with a semicolon.
- The onmouseup event occurs when the pointing device button is released over an element.
Attribute "onmouseup" example:
<html>
<head>
<title>onmouseup Event attribute</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="Silver" text="Blue"
onmouseup="alert('The mouse button is released')" >
The onmouseup event occurs when the
pointing device button is released over an element.
</body>
</html>
The optgroup element can contain the following element(s):
Elements | Description |
---|---|
option | This element defines a menu choice within a SELECT menu. |
The optgroup element can be contained in the following element(s):
Elements | Description |
---|---|
select | This element defines a form control for the selection of options. It is is most useful within a FORM. |
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