How to style a select tag's option element?

Question

I\'m trying to set the style of an option in a select dropdown menu in Google Chrome. It works in all browsers except IE9 and Chrome.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, WebKit browsers do not support styling of tags yet, except for color and background-color.

The most widely used cross browser solution is to use

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• and style them using CSS. Frameworks like Bootstrap do this well.