Escaping html in select

Need Help
1

I’m trying to build a select with countries and their corresponding flags.

Tried it both ways via ->control and ->select

<!--                --><?php //= $this->Form->control('country_id', ['label' => __('Country'), 'type' => 'select','escape'=>false, 'options' => $countries, 'empty' => true]); ?>
                <?=$this->Form->select('country_id',$countries,['label'=>__('Country'),'escape'=>false]);?>

For the entity, i made a virtual field that returns me the country with flag:

    protected function _getNameWithFlag() {

        return '<span class="fi fi-'.strtolower($this->code).'"></span> '.$this->name;
    }

The actual escaped string is shown to me in the select box, when “escape”=>true, but as soon as I turn on escape=>false, it just gives me the country name without the flag.

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The icons should work, as I have it already displayed on the /index site in the Table representing the data.

I’m using country flags from https://github.com/lipis/flag-icons

Any help on getting this work would be appreciated.

2

Check the resulting page html. It looks like the <span> node is being stripped from the <option>.

Double check that this is an allowed html node nesting. My IDE give a warning for this use.

If it is allowed, you may need to write your own element template to output these select item <option> tags.

3

You’re right, seems like its not possible to include tags in the option. Gonna switch to select2 or something similar.