My comment box is white until you click in it to start typing and then the background changes to the colour I want it to be. For the life of me I can't see why. Can anyone help me?

Because you have this in your code: .textbox:focus{ background-color:; border:1px solid ; color:; font:arial; font-size:11px; text-align:center;} If you don't want it to do that, take the part that says ":focus" out, so the part before the bracket just says ".textbox"

Hmmmm, I thought of that and tried it already but it didn't seem to work. I'll try it again :)

So it did stop it changing colours but now the background is white instead of the beige colour I want it to be.

You forgot to remove the colon after .textbox. You should have just this: .textbox { background-color:; border:1px solid ; color:; font:arial; font-size:11px; text-align:center; } And then it should work.

It worked :) Thank you so very much Charm &;