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[meow]

But there must be a reason it doens't work. Do you have the right file name and path in the <link rel="stylesheet" href="file.css" type="text/css">?
And you haven't included any tags in the CSS, have you? Just the CSS rules?

 

[coolguy23]

yes the path is correct and no tags in the code

 

[LastActionHero]

Try using the virtual path or the real path (http://blahblah)

 

[meow]

He is doing it locally...
Can you post a html file and the css file somewhere?

 

[LeX]

Yeah, let us actually see what you've got that's not working for you in action.

 

[coolguy23]

i don't know what was wrong but i finally got it to work
do you know how to change the border color of a textarea in css? and also what are the codes for dropdown menus and stuff like that, you can never be too safe

 

[meow]

Here, take the works. It's just to hang the style elements on. If you have other text areas that you don't want in the same colors you have to give them classes. Oh, and "select" only takes the border in the latest browsers I think. IE5 is a no go, but the rest works.


.coolguy { border: 2px solid #FF0000; color: #EEEEEE; background: #333333 none; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px }
.other { color: #FF0000; background: #AAAAAA none }

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<form name="coolform">
<textarea rows="7" cols="30" name="cooltext" class="coolguy">
Tell us about your self...
</textarea>
<br>

<select name="badchoices" class="coolguy">
<option name="this">blah</option>
<option name="that" class="other">blah</option>
<option name="huh?">blah</option>
<option name="something" class="other">blah</option>
</select>

<br>
<input type="submit" value="Send away" class="coolguy">
</form>