Hi soeren, well this is one way
<style type="text/css"> <!-- input {font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #F0F0F0; color: #00AEEF; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding:0 3px 0 3px; margin-bottom:3px;} select {font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #000000; color: #EF9702; border: 1px solid #B1B1B1; padding:0 3px 0 3px; margin-bottom:3px;} textarea {font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #000000; color: #EF9702; border: 1px solid #B1B1B1; padding:0 3px 0 3px; margin-bottom:3px;} --> </style> hope this is what you want, but just play with it. Cheers tiaan :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Heiden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Soeren Mordhorst" <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Styling of <input type="file"> > Soeren, > > on Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 18:42 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: > > > for an <input type="file"> we like to design the button and, if > > possible, the background-color for focus. > > Does anybody know how to do that? > > > The link in the fieldset 'Upload a file to the W3C Validator.': > > http://www.webnauts.net/redesign/check.html > > You could do it by using some JavaScript and a technique by PPK: > > http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html > > But do consider if it's worth to do so, or if you better stick with > the default controls for usability reasons. > > regards > > Martin > > > > > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** ______________________________________ Email disclaimer and confidentiality note Please refer to : http://www.inxcom.com/email.html for Inxcom's email disclaimer and usage policy. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************