<select name="NAME" size="1"
disabled title="This text should appear in a tooltip popup.">
<option>Option1 </option>
<option>Option2 </option>
<option>Option3 </option>
</select>
see
PRB: Internet Explorer Does Not Display Title Attribute Using the Select Tag (Q221608)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q221608
<select id=test>
</select>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
for (a in test){
if (a == "title") a=a.fontcolor("red").fontsize(6)
document.write(a+"\t");
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>