How do change the color of the text of an within a <select>?

Question

I am trying to change the color of the first option to grey color, that only the text (select one option) but here it\'s not working here:

Answer 1

Here is my demo with jQuery

    
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https://jsfiddle.net/monster75/cnt73375/1/