From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001010 BuildID: 2000101015 When I have a "select" element in a standard HTML form, I have found that when the option is the default selected option, the style-set color is ignored (and displayed in black). See my example at http://63.207.138.180/z_bugDemo.html... Reproducible: Always (also happens in Windows) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Browse my example page, http://63.207.138.180/z_bugDemo.html. Actual Results: Each of the default selected options is displayed in black. Expected Results: Each of the default selected options should appear in their respective colors... This HTML reproduces the problem: <form> <select> <option selected style="color:red;">First option (red)</option> <option style="color:green;">Second option (green)</option> <option style="color:blue;">Third option (blue)</option> </select> </form>

hmm... Here is how Mozilla currently sets the selected option element color: option[-moz-option-selected] { color: red !important; background-color: WHATEVER THE BACKGROUND HIGHLIGHT COLOR YOU WANT !important; } THis is specific to mozilla since there is no standard method in css yet. Although , if you read up on the w3.org css3 spec there are hints of how it could work for all supporting browsers in the future. Marking invalid.

See also bug 79107, Styles assigned to OPTION elements aren't used for pull-down SELECT lists.

This bug is not invalid. The test page (assuming it bears any degree of similarity to the snippet posted in comments, since the link is dead) uses valid CSS and the browser should make every effort to display the author's styles properly regardless of the circumstances. Changing to a dup of bug 79107 with functional testcase.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79107 ***