Cannot change background color of select box

Cannot change background color of select box

I am using jquery.mobile-1.3.0 and jquery-1.10.2 with jquery.mobile-1.3.0.min.css and  jquery.mobile.structure-1.3.0.min.css

I would like to change the background color of a <select> box but I cannot get it to work. I can change the background color of a <div> with:

  1. <div style="background:red"id="test1" data-role="button">Test-1</div>
But if I try and do something similar with a select box nothing happens. Here is an example of what I have tried:

  1. <select style="background: red" id="feed" class="news" onchange="getNews()">
  2.         <option style="background: red" value="0">Topic-1</option>
  3. <option style="background: red" value="1">Topic-2</option>
  4. </select>
I have also tried using "background-color" instead of "background".

What am I doing wrong