Help with Textarea

Discussion in 'CSS' started by SKULL, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. #1
    I am looking at adding a bolder border around the textarea on my site http://www.one4um.co.uk/mybb/create/ as you can see it dos not stand out to where you have to fill in the textarea.

    Image of what i mean needs standing out more.

    http://www.allnukestuffhost.com/viewer.php?file=t9fpii7s105x6ytfofbt.jpg

    My css style code is below please help as im no CSS guru

     
    /********************************************
       HTML ELEMENTS
    ********************************************/ 
    
    /* top elements */
    * { margin: 0;	padding: 0; }
    
    body {
    	margin: 0; padding: 0;
    	font: 70%/1.5 Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    	color: #333; 
    	background: #FFF url(bg.gif) repeat-x;	
    }
    
    /* links */
    a {
    	color: #003366;
    	background-color: inherit;
    	text-decoration: none;
    }
    a:hover {
    	color: #CC0001; 
    	background-color: inherit;
    }
    
    /* headers */
    h1, h2, h3 {
    	font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', Sans-Serif;
    	font-weight: bold;
    	color: #333;
    }
    h1 {
    	font-size: 120%;
    	letter-spacing: .5px;
    }
    h2 {
    	font-size: 115%;	
    	text-transform: uppercase; 		
    }
    h3 {
    	font-size: 115%;
    	color: #003366;		
    }
    
    /* images */
    img {
    	border: 2px solid #CCC;
    }
    img.float-right {
      margin: 5px 0px 10px 10px;  
    }
    img.float-left {
      margin: 5px 10px 10px 0px;
    }
    
    h1, h2, h3, p {
    	padding: 0;		
    	margin: 10px;
    }
    
    ul, ol {
    	margin: 10px 20px;
    	padding: 0 20px;
    }
    
    code {
      margin: 10px 0;
      padding: 10px;
      text-align: left;
      display: block;
      overflow: auto;  
      font: 500 1em/1.5em 'Lucida Console', 'courier new', monospace;
      /* white-space: pre; */
      background: #FAFAFA;
      border: 1px solid #f2f2f2;  
      border-left: 4px solid #CC0000;
    }
    acronym {
      cursor: help;
      border-bottom: 1px solid #777;
    }
    blockquote {
    	margin: 10px;
     	padding: 0 0 0 32px;  	
      	background: #FAFAFA url(quote.gif) no-repeat 5px 10px !important; 
    	background-position: 8px 10px;
    	border: 1px solid #f2f2f2; 
    	border-left: 4px solid #CC0000; 
    	font-weight: bold;  
    }
    
    /* form elements */
    form {
    	margin:10px; padding: 0 5px;
    	border: 1px solid #f2f2f2; 
    	background-color: #FAFAFA; 
    }
    label {
    	display:block;
    	font-weight:bold;
    	margin:5px 0;
    }
    input {
    	padding: 2px;
    	border:1px solid #eee;
    	font: normal 1em Verdana, sans-serif;
    	color:#777;
    }
    textarea {
    	width:400px;
    	padding:2px;
    	font: normal 1em Verdana, sans-serif;
    	border:1px solid #eee;
    	height:100px;
    	display:block;
    	color:#777;
    }
    input.button { 
    	margin: 0; 
    	font: bolder 12px Arial, Sans-serif; 
    	border: 1px solid #CCC; 
    	padding: 1px; 
    	background: #FFF;
    	color: #CC0000;
    }
    /* search form */
    form.search {
    	position: absolute;
    	top: 5px; right: 5px;
    	padding: 0; margin: 0;
    	border: none;
    	background-color: transparent; 
    }
    form.search input.textbox { 
    	margin: 0; 
    	width: 120px;
    	border: 1px solid #CCC; 
    	background: #FFF;
    	color: #333; 
    }
    form.search input.searchbutton { 
    	margin: 0; 
    	font-size: 100%; 
    	font-family: Arial, Sans-serif; 
    	border: 1px solid #CCC; 
    	background: #FFFFFF url(headerbg.gif) repeat-x bottom left; 
    	padding: 1px; 
    	font-weight: bold; 
    	height: 23px;
    	color: #333;
    	width: 60px;
    }
    
    /**********************************
      LAYOUT 
    ***********************************/
    #wrap {
    	margin: 0 auto; 
    	width: 780px;
    }
    
    /* header */
    #header {
    	position: relative;
    	margin: 0; padding: 0;
    	height: 60px;
    }
    #header span#slogan {
    	z-index: 3;
    	position: absolute;
    	left: 3px; bottom: 7px;
    	font: bold 1.2em Verdana, Arial, Tahoma,  Sans-serif;	
    	color: #FFF;	
    }
    
    #header-logo {
    	position: relative;
    	clear: both;
    	height: 50px; 
    	margin: 0; padding: 0;	
    }
    #header-logo #logo {
    	position: absolute;
    	top: 3px; left: 5px;
    	font: bold 30px "trebuchet MS", Arial, Tahoma, Sans-Serif;
    	margin: 0; padding: 0;
    	letter-spacing: -1px;
    	color: #000;
    }
    
    /* navigation tabs */
    #header ul {
    	position: absolute;
       margin:0;
       list-style:none;
    	right:-18px ; bottom: 3px;
    	font: bold 13px 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Sans-serif;
    }
    #header li {
       display:inline;
       margin:0; padding:0;
    }
    #header a {
       float:left;
       background: url(tableft.gif) no-repeat left top;
       margin:0;
       padding:0 0 0 4px;
       text-decoration:none;
    }
    #header a span {
       float:left;
       display:block;
       background: url(tabright.gif) no-repeat right top;
       padding:5px 15px 4px 6px;
       color:#FFF;
    }
    /* Commented Backslash Hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
    #header a span {float:none;}
    /* End IE5-Mac hack */
    #header a:hover span {
    	color:#FFF;
    }
    #header a:hover {
       background-position:0% -42px;
    }
    #header a:hover span {
       background-position:100% -42px;
    }
    #header #current a {
       background-position:0% -42px;
    }
    #header #current a span {
       background-position:100% -42px;
    }
    
    /* main column */
    #main {
    	float: right;
    	margin: 0; padding: 0;
    	width: 545px;	
    }
    #main h1 {
    	margin: 10px 0;
    	padding: 4px 0 4px 8px; 
    	font-size: 105%;
    	color: #FFF;
    	text-transform: uppercase; 
    	background-color: #CC0000;	
    	letter-spacing: .5px;
    }
    
    /* sidebar */
    #sidebar {
    	float: left;
    	width: 220px;
    	margin: 0; padding: 0; 
    	background-color: #FFFFFF; 	
    }
    #sidebar h1 {
    	margin: 10px 0 0 0; 
    	padding: 4px 0 4px 8px; 
    	font: bold 105% Arial, Sans-Serif;
    	color: #FFF;
    	text-transform: uppercase; 
    	background: #333; 
    	letter-spacing: 1px;	
    }
    #sidebar .left-box {
    	border: 1px solid #EBEBEB;
    	margin: 0 0 5px 0;	
    	background: #FFF;
    }
    #sidebar ul.sidemenu {
    	list-style: none;
    	text-align: left;
    	margin: 3px 0px 8px 0; padding: 0;
    	text-decoration: none;		
    }
    #sidebar ul.sidemenu li {
    	border-bottom: 1px solid #f2f2f2; 
    	background: url(bullet.gif) no-repeat 3px 2px;	
    	padding: 3px 5px 3px 25px;
    	margin: 0;	
    }
    #sidebar ul.sidemenu a {
    	font-weight: bolder;
    	padding: 3px 0px;	
    	background: none;
    }
    
    /* footer */
    .footer { 
    	clear: both; 	
    	border-top: 1px solid #f2f2f2;
    	background: #FFF url(footerbg.gif) repeat-x;
    	padding: 2px 0 10px 0; 
    	text-align: center;  
    	line-height: 1.5em;	
    	font-size: 95%;
    }
    .footer a { 
    	text-decoration: none; 
    	font-weight: bold;		
    }
    
    /* alignment classes */
    .float-left  { float: left; }
    .float-right { float: right; }
    .align-left  { text-align: left; }
    .align-right { text-align: right; }
    
    /* display and additional classes  */
    .clear {	clear: both; }
    .red   { color: #CC0000; }
    .comments { 
    	margin: 20px 10px 5px 10px; 
    	padding: 3px 0;
    	border-bottom: 1px dashed #EFF0F1; 	
    	border-top: 1px dashed #EFF0F1;	
    }
    
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    SKULL, Dec 30, 2008 IP
  2. hockeyhero

    hockeyhero Well-Known Member

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    #2
    would you like all the borders to have a bolder border around them or just some of them?

    If you want all the border colors changed then find:

    input {
        padding: 2px;
        border:1px solid #eee;
        font: normal 1em Verdana, sans-serif;
        color:#777;
    }
    Code (markup):
    and change to:

    input {
        padding: 2px;
        border:1px solid #000;
        font: normal 1em Verdana, sans-serif;
        color:#777;
    }
    Code (markup):
    Or whatever color that you would like... you can also change other things of the input like the size of the border (1px is the default with your css) :)
     
    hockeyhero, Dec 30, 2008 IP
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