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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I've updated the Zulip link in both places I found it. No need to post again, unless you have something new to say. We'll pull together feedback from all the sources.
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Should we post here again, what we posted over there? Or would that unnecessarily duplicate things? The link to a Zulip thread in this initial post leads to an internal one, but there's...
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