optgroup
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Form Example</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css"> body {font-family:arial, verdana, sans-serif;} </style> </head> <body> <form action="" method="post" name="frmSelectStaff"> <select name="selStaff"> <optgroup label="Sales"> <option value="E">E</option> <option value="S">S</option> <option value="A">A</option> <option value="J">J</option> <option value="V">V</option> <option value="S">S</option> </optgroup> <optgroup label="Marketing"> <option value="B">D</option> <option value="L">K</option> <option value="M">M</option> </optgroup> <optgroup label="IT"> <option value="A">A</option> <option value="T">T</option> </optgroup> <option lable="Support"> <option value="B">B</option> <option value="A">A</option> </option> </select> <input type="submit" /> </form> </body> </html>