I really need your help and experience here. I am just stumbling along trying to get this right (and for the record I HAVE been reading but have trouble remembering sometimes).

url is: www.moreschoolcosts.com
(host is 2Mhost and I'm using one of their templates. While they do offer a lot for the money I am sorry to say their support is patchy, slow and sometimes very rude so let's not go there.)

On the page called Contribute! I had to make all the form elements for text as textareas (instead of just text) b/c if I didn't they were green (except for those which Google wants to autofill and they are yellow). I don't expecially like the green and when Google displays them as yellow then the yellow font (part of the template) is impossible to read. I seem to recall reading that the white area of the page is just an overlayer of color. I'm guessing that the medium green seen elsewhere is what I see peeking through when I use ?text? in my form. Did I make sense? Am I right?

Now, here's where you can help: I have been advised by these guys to change my css (THEIR css btw) if I want plain old regular ?text? areas with a color other than green and a font color other than yellow (I want a black font in a white field). I don't know how to do this and so far they won't tell me. Can you help, please???

Mary

In the HTML, towards the top, find the piece of code that shows:


INPUT {
BORDER-RIGHT: #bfd7a1 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #bfd7a1 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: xx-small; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #bfd7a1 1px solid; COLOR: #ffff99; TEXT-INDENT: 5px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #bfd7a1 1px solid; HEIGHT: 18px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #009900;
}

I have made bold the parts you need to change. The "COLOR" should be changed to #000000 and the "BACKGROUND-COLOR" should be changed to #FFFFFF

Hope that helps,
Thanks,
Chris

Thanks Chris!

I hope it works. I can't seem to access the css. I can SEE it if I view source but I can't get to it. I can only get to the code for each of my pages--not the site iteself.

I have phoned 2Mhost (their livechat support is down at the moment) and they say they will get back to me. I told them what I want and how it needs to be done. Sounds like they want to do it????

In the meantime, can you recommend a good (and SIMPLE!) reading source for me to understand css better? Aside from Lissa?

Mary