Make some options in a select menu “unselectable”

Question

You’re probably looking for an <optgroup>:

<select>
    <optgroup label="CITY 1">
        <option>City 1 branch A</option>
        <option>City 1 branch B</option>
        <option>City 1 branch C</option>
    </optgroup>

    <optgroup label="CITY 2">
        <option>City 2 branch A</option>
        <option>City 2 branch B</option>
    </optgroup>
</select>

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Zg9Mw/

If you do need to make regular <option> elements unselectable, you can give them the disabled attribute (it’s a boolean attribute, so the value doesn’t matter at all):

<option disabled>City 2 branch A</option>

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