My site has a squared background - how can I give my text area an invisible background? As you can see from the example link below, the squares in the text frame are not aligned correctly with those of the page background, which gives a disjointed look to the page.

I also want to have certain words in the text box underlined and enboldened - how can I do this? As the example shows, the html shows up.

Thanks,
Charlie

Page Example (http://www10.brinkster.com/equinefocus/2003_0329_245.htm)

you have to use a special textarea box for that, one that does allows HTML in it:

<ilayer name="scroll1">
<div id="scroll3"
style="width:100;height:75;
background-color:COLORHERE;
overflow:auto">
TEXT HTML TEXT HTML
</textarea></div>


and about your background color:

I would suggest using a div layer, because they are transparent in the first place. And they scroll :)

<DIV id="name" style="width:100px; height:380px; overflow: auto;" align=left>Your HTML </DIV>

change the bold parts to your own stuff and it should work fine :)

so in short: just forget about that textarea, and use the "div" instead. It looks the same, it only allows HTML and it is transparent

Perfect, thank you very much.
Charlie