i've used this code for a userlookup on neopets.com

<style type="text/css">
<!--
A:link
{ text-decoration: value [none]; color:#000000 }
A:visited
{ text-decoration: value [none]; color:#000000 }
A:active
{ text-decoration: value [line-through]; color:#000000 }
A:hover
{ text-decoration: value [line-through]; color:#000000;
background-image:url(http://www.geocities.com/dream_cleric/flowers.jpg);
background-color:#FFFFFF;
cursor:value [crosshair}
body
{background-color:#FFFFFF
background-image:url(value); [http://www.geocities.com/dream_cleric/flowers.jpg]
background-repeat:value[no-repeat]
background-position:valueI valueII; [valueI:center][valueII:center]
background-attachment[fixed]
font-family:verdana
color:#000000
letter-spacing:value[2pt]
font-weight:value:[normal]
font-size:value[xx-small]
scrollbar-face-color : violetblue;
scrollbar-highlight-color : violetblue;
scrollbar-3dlight-color : violetblue; scrollbar-shadow-color : violetblue;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color : violetblue; scrollbar-track-color : violetblue;
scrollbar-arrow-color : violetblue }
td
{ font-family: value; [verdana]
color: #000000;
padding-left: value; [2cm]
padding-right: value; [2cm]
padding-top: value; [2cm]
padding-bottom: value; [2cm]
padding: value; [2cm]
padding: value value [2cm, 4cm : value] }
input, textarea
{ background: lightyellow url(none);
font-family: verdana;
color: #000000;
border-style: value [dotted];
border-color: #000000;
border-width: valuepx [5] }
-->
</style>

but when i save it it comes up
<style type="text/css">

</style>

how cany i get it to work?

Anything in brackets you should take out, and replace "value" with your actual code stuff.... so part of it will look like this:

body
{background-color:#FFFFFF;
background-image:url(http://www.geocities.com/dream_cleric/flowers.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
background-attachment:fixed;
font-family:verdana;
color:#000000;
letter-spacing:2pt;
font-weight:value:normal;
font-size:xx-small;

I figure you can get the rest after that :)

oooo thanx much