How to do a Tool tip in select drop-down?

[kabir_cj]

I need to have a list of selectable options from a drop-down, with each option in the dropdown having a little text poping up when I do a mouse over. I tried this:

<select name="selbox" >                <option title="1" >option 1</option>	<option  title="2">option 2</option>	<option  title="3">option 3</option></select>

I thought I could use the title attribute in the <option> tag but that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

[actionsketch]

You can't easily. If you wanted just plain text to have a tooltip, you can do <a title="">text</a>, which I found out by trying to solve you problem! But it seems the <select> tag will completely ignore any effort to add tooltips to the options. Which means that if you desperately need tooltips, you have to make your own in javascript.

[kabir_cj]

You can't easily. If you wanted just plain text to have a tooltip, you can do <a title="">text</a>, which I found out by trying to solve you problem! But it seems the <select> tag will completely ignore any effort to add tooltips to the options. Which means that if you desperately need tooltips, you have to make your own in javascript.

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Thanks actionsketch. This is what I am thinking about: write a js function which I call when the mouse is over one of the options in the list and not when I select an optionDo you have a different idea with js?

[actionsketch]

do what works.