Having trouble populating select and option tags

I'm trying to populate two select tags, which each have a few option tags, using TBS. I've done this before but the logic I've used before is not quite working for me.

Here's a snippet of my template code:


What I usually do to populate my label, select and option html tags is I include the code block=XXX at the end of my bracketed TBS tags.  The problem I'm having is when I type block=p, I'm getting multiple <p></p> tags on my page each of which have a singe <option></option> tags rather than one <p></p> with multiple <option></option> tags.

When I try block=td, I get multiple td tags each with a single <option></option> tag.

When I try block=tr, I get multiple tr tags each with single <option></option> tags.

What is going on here?

Hi John,

Can you explain what you need to have after the merging?

I can see two strange things in your snippet:
- you're using the "serial" mode whil you have only one secondary block (product_attributes_1)
- you're repeating "block=p" or "block=option" on several fields, while only one is needed per section of block.

Regarding serial mode, I'm probably going to create product_attributes_2 block soon. I created product_attributes_1 because there are already some serial blocks on this page and I was unsure if the lack of a designated serial block in this section was what was causing my problem. 

After my merge I'd like two select tags, one named "Color" and another named "Size." I thought the following code is how I'd accomplish this.

I'd like the select tag for Color to have a list of colors as options. I thought the following code would do that.

but how are structured your data?
With which data do you feed the "color" list and the "size" list?