<option> styling information possibly incorrect

[Funtom]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/option

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Styling CSS

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

Firefox supports background-color styling AFAIK.

What did you expect to see?

In Firefox, only font-size of the owning <select> and background-color styling are respected.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

no, but I use this styling in my project

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

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• Folder: en-us/web/html/element/option
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/option
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/html/element/option/index.md
• Last commit: a88e260
• Document last modified: 2025-02-06T00:02:39.000Z

[Josh-Cena]

@estelle @ahmetsait What does this sentence even mean?

In Firefox, only font-size of the owning <select> is respected. Chrome additionally allows ...

Are we talking about setting these properties on <select> or on <option>? I'm on Mac, and regardless of the browser, the dropdown is always my native widget style:

Which means the only thing you can meaningfully change is the scaling via font-size on the parent.

Do you perhaps have screenshots showing what you see? I also think we shouldn't go into so much detail altogether because form control styling is always browser- and OS-specific so we should just say "it differs for each platform and you need to test before using anything".

[Funtom]

Sorry, if my comment is confusing.

1. We are talking about OPTION element, see th link above.
2. we are talking specificaly about the Styling CSS section.
3. I am pointing at the sentence In Firefox, only font-size of the owning is respected which I suggest rewording, see above my anser to "What did you expect to see?" Hope, it's clear now.

[Josh-Cena]

Yes, I understand what you are talking about. My question is directed to the other people who introduced this paragraph recently, because I'm not sure anything has an impact on <option>.