Jquery background for a dropdown list
<p>I have a dropdown list and I would like to make a specific item in the list have a background color of yellow and I'm not sure of the jquery code for this.</p>

<p>Here's the script:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script language="text/Javascript"&gt;
    $(function(){
        $('select[id="ddlParticipants"]'.rows[2].bgColor = "#FFFF00")
    })
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>and here's the dropdown list:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;asp:DropDownList ID="ddlParticipants" runat="server" Width="300px"
     AutoPostBack="True" 
     onselectedindexchanged="ddlParticipants_SelectedIndexChanged" 
     meta:resourcekey="ddlParticipantsResource1"&gt;
     &lt;asp:ListItem Text="&lt;%$ Resources:Resources, Select %&gt;" 
         meta:resourcekey="ListItemResource1"&gt;&lt;/asp:ListItem&gt;
     &lt;asp:ListItem Text="---I am a NEW participant---" Value="0" 
         meta:resourcekey="ListItemResource2"&gt;&lt;/asp:ListItem&gt;
&lt;/asp:DropDownList&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I want to make the listitem that reads "I am  New Participant" yellow.
Anyone have any ideas?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>
