This was basically triggered by this forum post: https://forum.backdropcms.org/forum/how-set-selected-tag-form-select-opt...
As it is currently, you cannot easily add attributes to individual options of select elements, and it requires either a lot of theming work, or to port a module like https://www.drupal.org/project/form_options_attributes. Even with that module, things are not consistent, so we should consider backporting the D8 solution being worked in https://www.drupal.org/node/342316
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Tried and successfully applied DrAlbany's method with the form https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/grobot/2105379stickman hook. I also encountered the same situation. Thanks DrAlbany
Ubercart - Auto increment SKU
Since before migration you need to prepare the Drupal site - disabling and removing all modules, disabling themes, as part of the preparation you can clear the cache and logs, delete the search...
Trimming the size of my database for D2B_migrate not to error out (Request Entity Too Large / 504 Gateway Time-out)
QuickTabs is now available!!! But does not work as expected, already reported (https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/quicktabs/issues/14). Maybe an alternative solution using Views...
Quick Tabs (or method to simulate)