change background color for a text field

[chuckdawit]

I would like to change the background color for the just the area where I have a text field. Ex. the table has a white background and the text field has a background color of grey with black text.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[chuckdawit]

How do I change the background color to a certain length regardless of the length of the text I'm placing into the field.
This is what I'm trying so far.
<SPAN style="background-color:grey">My background is grey!</SPAN><br>
<SPAN style="background-color:grey">My background is grey!</SPAN>
I want it to be spaced like this but have a length of say "80" regardless of the length of the text I put in.
Thanks for any help.

[LuckY07]

you could use a style sheet (css), and insert that into the textfield, ie:

<textarea style="styleName">text</textarea>

then just make your css file (style.css) and edit the background, font colors in there.

[chuckdawit]

Can you make the background color a certain length? I want to make it a specific length regardless of how long the text is.