Question

I would like to include the following in my css style statment. is it possible?

<option selected value="" class="" style= background: url<?php some php variable; ?></option>

Answer 1

If that portion of HTML code is in a .php file, yes, it is possible : PHP does just generate the output, no matter if the textual data is actually corresponding to CSS, HTML, JS, …

Note though that your HTML code, here, is not quite OK : you are missing quotes arround the content of the style attribute, you should add parenthesis arround the url, and should use selected="selected".

Also note that you need to echo the content of the variable — and not just use its name.

So, basically, you should have something like this :

<option selected="selected" value="" class="" 
    style="background: url(<?php echo $your_variable; ?>)">
  text of your option
</option>