How to bold the first option of a select across all browsers?

Question

I have tried to bold the first option of the select box but it\'s only working in Firefox, not other browsers (Chrome, IE). Here is the code I\'ve tried.

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Answer 1

To my knowledge it doesnt work in IE unless you style the select tag:

select{
    font-weight:bold;
}

However this will influence all options. I dont know of another css-only solution, but would be interested in one as-well :)