jQuery: How can I change the color only of the selected option? <p>I have a selection list which in HTML looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;select id="language-list"&gt; &lt;option value="English"&gt;English&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="German"&gt;German&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="French"&gt;French&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; </code></pre> <p>With jQuery I would like to achieve that ONLY the currently selected option gets a red color. When you click on the selection list to see the other options, the other options shall keep their original color.</p> <p>My current jQuery code looks like that: </p> <pre><code>$('#language-list').css('color', 'red'); </code></pre> <p>How do I achieve that only the currently selected option gets a red color?</p>