How to put an image/icon before select option text?

Looking to place different icons i开发者_如何学Pythonn front of items/options in a HTML select box.

In theory, you could make use of the CSS background-image property in the <option> element, but that doesn't work flawlessly in (cough) IE.

Best what you can do is to use jQuery/Javascript to mimic a dropdown with a bunch of <li> or <div> elements. As far no one comes to mind (I've never had the need for such a dropdown), but you can find here an overview of the "better" jQuery dropdown plugins, there must be one which suits your needs, for example this one.

The only way to do it would be to dynamically replace the select with a DHTML dropdown, the vanilla control doesn't have that capability. Using a DHTML dropdown has the benefit that it should degrade gracefully for those with javascript disabled.

You could do it quite simply with jQuery, have your normal <select>, grab it and replace with a hidden field, have your fancy DHTML dropdown with images (hidden positioned <div> with an unordered list could do it), attach to the onclick event of the items and make that update the hidden field with the selected value.