title: how do i put backcolor on a selectListItem
body: <p>i have an asp.net mvc page and i want to have a dropdown list with different background color <a href="http://pietschsoft.com/post/2004/09/20/Color-the-background-of-items-in-a-Dropdown-box-in-your-HTML-pages.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">like this page</a></p>
  
  <p>i have the following code to display a dropdown list</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;label&gt;Data Source: &lt;/label&gt;&lt;% = Html.DropDownList("DataSource", Model.CalendarDataSources, new { @id = "calendarDSDropdown", @class = "calendarDSDropdown" })%&gt;
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  <p>in my viewmodel i have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    public IEnumerable&lt;SelectListItem&gt; CalendarDataSources;
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  <p>which i am populating on the server.  I want to add a different backlog to each SelectListItem but i can't see how to do that as select list item only has <strong>Name, Id, Selected</strong> properties</p>
  
  <p>is this possible</p>