Assertion:
IE6: IE seems to need OPTION elements to be explicitly closed for the OPTGROUP element to work correctly. In HTML though, end tags for OPTION are, well..."optional", so this just seems to be a bug (Note: in XHTML the closing tags are NOT optional.)

OPTGROUP element with closing tags for OPTION elements:
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OPTGROUP element without closing tags for OPTION elements:
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