Can I colour backgrounds of selected items in HTML select options with CSS only?

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Instead of only setting a background-color you can also set a linear-gradient as background:

option:checked {
  background: red linear-gradient(0deg, red 0%, red 100%);
}

This works in IE11 and latest Chrome and Firefox. Safari just ignores it. Did not test IE/Edge.

If you want to set the background color only for focused multi-selects you can use this snippet:

select[multiple]:focus option:checked {
  background: red linear-gradient(0deg, red 0%, red 100%);
}

See the full demo here: http://codepen.io/marceltschopp/pen/PNyqKp

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