title: Font color not as per styling specified in css for textarea and select boxes
body: <p>I'm trying to style a webform in my webpage, and the form has couple of textboxes, textarea and a select dropdown. I'm having hard time styling the text area and select dropdown; textboxes are looking as expected.</p>
  
  <p>For the textarea box, i used css like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>textarea{
  font-size:0.9em;
  color:#6da021;
  border:1px solid #6da021;
  width:300px; height:50px;
  padding-left:10px;
  font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried putting an id in the textarea html and then using the above styling like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea type="text" rows="5" cols="30" name="details" id="details"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In both ways, the border properties were applied successfully. But what did not work in both ways are - color of text inside the textarea box, and also the font looks slightly different from what is seen in the text boxes, which use the same "font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;" css.</p>
  
  <p>Similarly, for the select box styling, although the border properties are coming around properly, and that the font color of the first value - the value that is shown initially, without the user having to click on the dropdown arrow - is also displayed correctly. But when the user clicks on the dropdown arrow, all the values are then shown in the default color (not the color that was specifically used for the css of select).</p>
  
  <p>Is it some kind of a known problem, or am i missing out on some more styling? I see that the issue is seen across browsers (IE/firefox etc..)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>