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HTML

<td class="footable-visible"  style="width:1px; ">
        <div class="container" style="width:130px;">                                            
            <div class="row">
                 <select id="mySelect"  class="form-control">
                    <option style="color:white;background-color:#72D527;"> </option>
                    <option class="test" style="color:white;"> </option>
                    <option style="color:white;background-color:#CE93D8;"> </option>
                    <option style="color:white;background-color:#FFAB91;"> </option>
                    <option style="color:white;background-color:#F9A825;"> </option>
                    <option style="color:white;background-color:#BCAAA4;"> </option>
                    <option style="color:white;background-color:#9E9E9E;"> </option>
                 </select> 
            </div>
        </div>
</td>

CSS

.test{
    background-image: linear-gradient(blue 50%, green 50%);
}