title: How to style a select tag's option element?
body: <p>I'm trying to set the style of an <code>option</code> in a <code>select</code> dropdown menu in Google Chrome. It works in all browsers except IE9 and Chrome.</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>option.red {
      background-color: #cc0000; 
      font-weight: bold; 
      font-size: 12px; 
      color: white;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;select name="color"&gt;
      &lt;option class="red" value="red"&gt;Red&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="white"&gt;White&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="blue"&gt;Blue&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="green"&gt;Green&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Without using JavaScript, is there a way to set style to the options in Google Chrome? Once selected the background color does not display.</p>