title: Change IE background color on unopened, focused select box
body: <p>I'd like to change the blue background color from IE when a drop down is focused, but I can't seem to find any CSS to do this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id=focusSelect&gt;&lt;option&gt;Option&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>JS:</p>
  
  <pre><code>document.getElementById("focusSelect").focus();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>CSS:</p>
  
  <pre><code>select:focus{
      background-color: red;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/TafDD/3/" rel="noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/TafDD/3/</a></p>
  
  <p>Specifically this is for when the drop down is not open.  Styling the options is not a problem.</p>
  
  <p>I also can't find any definitive answer on whether this is possible to do at all.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/q9TQ2.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Setting the <code>option</code> background color also does not clear the blue color.</p>
  
  <pre><code>option {
      background-color: green;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/srycroft/yE2Zg/" rel="noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/srycroft/yE2Zg/</a></p>