[NTLUG:Discuss] Colour in HTML FORM/INPUT

[Steve Baker]

I'm a self-taught HTML writer - so I don't do much in the
way of sophisticated pages, but I have run into a problem
I can't solve by my usual technique of seeing how someone
else did it.

My homepage:  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
...has what I fondly believe to be tasteful colours - a
textured green background and gold text.

Well, I've been somewhat re-vamping it to get rid of the
GIF images (rassin-frassin Unisys grrrrrr!!)

I wanted to add a real simple FORM with a text entry box
and a 'submit' button. (You can see it at the bottom of
the page).

I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the
colour of the text input area and the "highlight" on
the accept button which are showing up in a garish white.
Can it really be that there is no way to change those
areas to something a little more muted?

I've checked a gazillion sites and to my suprise, I
can't find any that do this.  The handful of online
tutorials I've checked don't seem to offer any advice.

I have not yet figured out style sheets though - maybe
there is a way to use those to do it?

(My HTML editing tool is 'vi' BTW)

Help!

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Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
sjbaker1 at airmail.net (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
sjbaker at hti.com      (work)