How do I add child elements to a SelectOption?

Question

How do I add child elements to a org.apache.wicket.extensions.markup.html.form.select.SelectOption

I have tried the following:

SelectOption<String> wicketSelectOption = new SelectOption<String>("option", new Model<>(selectOption.getValue()));
wicketSelectOption.setRenderBodyOnly(false);
wicketSelectOption.setEscapeModelStrings(false);


Label label = new Label("optionLabel", "<i class=\"icon\"></i>" + selectOption.getLabel());
label.setEscapeModelStrings(false);

wicketSelectOption.add(label);

Result:

The < i > tag is completely ignored

What are you trying to archieve here? A `SelectOption` belongs to an ` — OH GOD SPIDERS, Mar 12 '18 at 14:27
Check out DropDownChoice, maybe it will help you. It could have a list of choices. — Alexei Stepanov, Mar 13 '18 at 08:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 13 '18 at 08:40

You need to add optionLabel as a child in the markup:

<option wicket:id="option">
    <wicket:container wicket:id="optionLabel"/>
</option>

I would suggest to use something like:

<option wicket:id="option">
    <i wicket:id="optionIcon"/> <wicket:container wicket:id="optionLabel"/>
</option>

This way you have full control.

How do I add child elements to a SelectOption?

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