Adding class to select options

Rails
1

I have…

<%= select(:machine, :name, Machine.find(:all).map {|m| [m.name, m.id]},
{}, :class => “something” %>

This gives me…

AZ01 AZ02 AZ03

What I am looking for is…

AZ01 AZ02 AZ03

How do you do this?

Thanks,

~Jeremy

2

You can swap the order of the name and id fields in the array to get the
right values and inner content in the option elements, but I don’t think
there’s a convenient way to specify the CSS class of the option
elements.

You can either build the elements yourself (maybe with content_tag) or
add them using Javascript. It should be pretty easy to do with the
Prototype library (which is included in Rails by default). Try using
$$(‘select.something’) to get the select element with the class
“something”, then addClassName(“something”) on each option child
element.