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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@yorkshirepudding thank you for the additional info on improving discoverability and a handy way to keep a list of projects for reuse.
Why not add a Github star?
It is a good point @izmeez and when I was researching repo discoverability I found that GitHub search does prioritise matches with more stars. This is what I was researching for:...
Why not add a Github star?
Do you have a separate development environment and transfer database and config between sites?
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