Make an HTML select field required in CF7

Hi there,

I have a working form with a country and city drop down menus using onChange event, my problem is I can’t get these drop down menus to be required as the rest of the fields. I can only make a field with square brackets [] required by placing the “*” but a normal brackets field <> doesn’t approve the “*” thing.

Here is my CF7 form code:

<h4>Name</h4><br />
    [text* your-name]
<h4>Birth date</h4><br />
    [date* Date date-format:dd/mm/yy]
<h4>Country</h4><br />
<select name="country" id="country" onchange="cityChange(this);">
    <option value="empty">Select a country</option>
    <option value="EG">Egypt</option>
    <option value="JR">Jordan</option>
</select>
<h4>City</h4><br />
<select name="city" id="city">
    <option value="0">Select a city</option>
</select>
<h4>Email</h4><br />
    [email* your-email]
<h4>Mobile Number</h4><br />
    [tel* Mobile]
<h4>Optional Notes</h4><br />
    [textarea Notes 60x3/1000 placeholder "Need to tell us anything else?"]
<br />
<p>[submit "Register ?"]</p><br />

Thanks a lot in advance.

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