Extended Views

I would say that the select would have to be fairly complicated before I would normally consider something like this, but otherwise I see no reason that it should be problematic to do so. I might even be more inclined to use a helper or closure to generate the select than a separate view, given that the view is likely to be dominated by a foreach loop to generate the option/optgroup elements, but in some environments it may be easier to work with a view.

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