html - <div> and <select> tags

Question

Can I have a <DIV> within an HTML <SELECT> tag?

e.g.:

<select tabindex="2" name="agegrp" id="agegrp" >
    <div> 
        <option value="-1">No preference</option>
    </div>
</select>

Answer 1

From the specification:

<!ELEMENT SELECT - - (OPTGROUP|OPTION)+ -- option selector -->

i.e. There is an element called "SELECT", the start tag is required, the end tag is required. It's children can be OPTGROUP elements and/or OPTION elements and there must be at least one of them.

Since a DIV is not an OPTGROUP or an OPTION, the answer is no.