select list navigation without js

[tictike]

I have some navigation like:

<select>
	<option>text</option>
	<option value="#">link text</option>
	<option value="#">link text</option>
	....
</select>

Right now js opens the URL in the value attribute, but I want users to be able to navigate if js is turned off. Is that possible using this markup?

[alex.w747]

Maybe you can replace them with <a ...>...</a> tags but then you will need a complex CSS solution to create select-like functionality. Anyway, it may be something like CSS-only menu: http://google.com/search?q=css+menu

[tictike]

That might be a good idea.. I'm pretty sure anchors cannot be used in option elements but I wasn't 100&#37; sure..

[AutisticCuckoo]

No, you cannot. An option element can only contain text (#PCDATA); no markup.

I think that what alex.w747 meant was that you could replace the entire select element with a list of links and style it to look similar to a select. You'd still need JavaScript, though, if you want it to work in IE6 and other ancient browsers that don't have full support for the :hover pseudo-class.