Formatting the States field

There are several possible approaches to the States field when adding an Address Type.

Simple #

One state per line:

Australian Capital Territory
Northern Territory
New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia

Comma-separated:

Australian Capital Territory,Northern Territory,New South Wales,Queensland,South Australia,Tasmania,Victoria,Western Australia

Do not put spaces after the comma – the space will be included in the next item

Key/Value #

If you need to display a label to the user but transmit a value (eg. a state code), separate the key and value with a vertical bar, key first:

ACT|Australian Capital Territory
NT|Northern Territory
NSW|New South Wales
QLD|Queensland
SA|South Australia
TAS|Tasmania
VIC|Victoria
WA|Western Australia

You can also use comma separation for key/value formatted states:

ACT|Australian Capital Territory,NT|Northern Territory,NSW|New South Wales,QLD|Queensland,SA|South Australia,TAS|Tasmania,VIC|Victoria,WA|Western Australia

Grouped #

For groups, use a semicolon after the group label. The group label will be displayed as an optgroup.

Individual states within the groups must all be on the same line as the group label.

England;Avon,Bedfordshire,Berkshire,Buckinghamshire,Cambridgeshire,Cheshire,Cleveland,Cornwall,Cumbria,Derbyshire,Devon,Dorset,Durham,East Sussex,Essex,Gloucestershire,Hampshire,Herefordshire,Hertfordshire,Isle of Wight,Kent,Lancashire,Leicestershire,Lincolnshire,London,Merseyside,Middlesex,Norfolk,Northamptonshire,Northumberland,North Humberside,North Yorkshire,Nottinghamshire,Oxfordshire,Rutland,Shropshire,Somerset,South Humberside,South Yorkshire,Staffordshire,Suffolk,Surrey,Tyne and Wear,Warwickshire,West Midlands,West Sussex,West Yorkshire,Wiltshire,Worcestershire
Wales;Clwyd,Dyfed,Gwent,Gwynedd,Mid Glamorgan,Powys,South Glamorgan,West Glamorgan
Scotland;Aberdeenshire,Angus,Argyll,Ayrshire,Banffshire,Berwickshire,Bute,Caithness,Clackmannanshire,Dumfriesshire,Dunbartonshire,East Lothian,Fife,Inverness-shire,Kincardineshire,Kinross-shire,Kirkcudbrightshire,Lanarkshire,Midlothian,Moray,Nairnshire,Orkney,Peeblesshire,Perthshire,Renfrewshire,Ross-shire,Roxburghshire,Selkirkshire,Shetland,Stirlingshire,Sutherland,West Lothian,Wigtownshire
Northern Ireland;Antrim,Armagh,Down,Fermanagh,Londonderry,Tyrone

The above example results in this:

If you wish to use key/value formatting in a grouped list, the format would be:

Label;key|value,key|value,key|value