diff --git a/.changeset/silent-adults-relax.md b/.changeset/silent-adults-relax.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9277514aa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/silent-adults-relax.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'svelte': patch
+---
+
+fix: allow arbitrary content in `<select>` elements
diff --git a/packages/svelte/src/html-tree-validation.js b/packages/svelte/src/html-tree-validation.js
index 4ec4ecf26f..3661d36a28 100644
--- a/packages/svelte/src/html-tree-validation.js
+++ b/packages/svelte/src/html-tree-validation.js
@@ -80,9 +80,6 @@ export function closing_tag_omitted(current, next) {
  */
 const disallowed_children = {
 	...autoclosing_children,
-	optgroup: { only: ['option', '#text'] },
-	// Strictly speaking, seeing an <option> doesn't mean we're in a <select>, but we assume it here
-	option: { only: ['#text'] },
 	form: { descendant: ['form'] },
 	a: { descendant: ['a'] },
 	button: { descendant: ['button'] },
@@ -92,8 +89,6 @@ const disallowed_children = {
 	h4: { descendant: ['h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6'] },
 	h5: { descendant: ['h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6'] },
 	h6: { descendant: ['h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6'] },
-	// https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#parsing-main-inselect
-	select: { only: ['option', 'optgroup', '#text', 'hr', 'script', 'template'] },
 
 	// https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#parsing-main-intd
 	// https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#parsing-main-incaption