How to do a Tool tip in select drop-down?

[Chris Jak]

I need to have a list of selectable options from a drop-down, with each option in the dropdown having a little text poping up when I do a mouse over. I tried this:

 <select name="selbox" >
               <option title="1" >option 1</option>
<option  title="2">option 2</option>
<option  title="3">option 3</option>
</select>
 

I thought I could use the title attribute in the <option> tag but that doesn't seem to work.
Any ideas?

[Eric Pascarello]

There is nothing to create a tool tip like that, so you need to find another solution.

Eric

[Chris Jak]

I know there is no straight way to do this. I am thinking about calling a javascript function on mouseover of one of the options. But I also need the tool-tip text to be dynamic(coming from an existing db query).
Any thoughts?

[Eric Pascarello]

There is no way to determine what option the mouse is over in a select element until the user selects the option and the onchange event fires.

Eric