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<optgroup>: The Option Group element
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The <optgroup> HTML element creates a grouping of options within a {{HTMLElement("select")}} element.

{{EmbedInteractiveExample("pages/tabbed/optgroup.html", "tabbed-standard")}}

Note

Optgroup elements may not be nested.

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

  • disabled
    • : If this Boolean attribute is set, none of the items in this option group is selectable. Often browsers grey out such control and it won't receive any browsing events, like mouse clicks or focus-related ones.
  • label
    • : The name of the group of options, which the browser can use when labeling the options in the user interface. This attribute is mandatory if this element is used.

Examples

<select>
  <optgroup label="Group 1">
    <option>Option 1.1</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="Group 2">
    <option>Option 2.1</option>
    <option>Option 2.2</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="Group 3" disabled>
    <option>Option 3.1</option>
    <option>Option 3.2</option>
    <option>Option 3.3</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>

Result

{{EmbedLiveSample("Examples")}}

Technical summary

Content categories None.
Permitted content Zero or more {{HTMLElement("option")}} elements.
Tag omission The start tag is mandatory. The end tag is optional if this element is immediately followed by another <optgroup> element, or if the parent element has no more content.
Permitted parents A {{HTMLElement("select")}} element.
Implicit ARIA role group
Permitted ARIA roles No role permitted
DOM interface {{domxref("HTMLOptGroupElement")}}

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

  • Other form-related elements: {{HTMLElement("form")}}, {{HTMLElement("legend")}}, {{HTMLElement("label")}}, {{HTMLElement("button")}}, {{HTMLElement("select")}}, {{HTMLElement("datalist")}}, {{HTMLElement("option")}}, {{HTMLElement("fieldset")}}, {{HTMLElement("textarea")}}, {{HTMLElement("input")}}, {{HTMLElement("output")}}, {{HTMLElement("progress")}} and {{HTMLElement("meter")}}.