ListSelect - Alternating item background colour

Is it possible to style the ListSelect component so that the item background colours alternate, much like in the Table component? (e.g. white and grey: http://demo.vaadin.com/sampler#TableSorting)

Unlike the table component there doesn't seem to be any odd/even class names to style. Looking at the generated HTML for the ListSelect component, each item seems to be contained with its own <option> tag, e.g.

<select class="v-select-select" size="10" style="" tabindex="0">
    <option value="1">first item</option>
    <option value="2">second item</option>
    <option value="3">third item</option>
</select>

However I am stuck as to how to make the background colour on the options alternate.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance :)

ListSelect client-side implementation VListSelect uses GWT ListBox, which doesn't add this style names to alternating rows.

Thanks Johannes, we decided to go with using CSS3 to manually style the options using the nth-child selector.

Can you provide a code sample of how you achieved this with CSS3?