The best way to affect multiple form elements all at once is to style the tag. You may recall that the tag is used to create text fields, radio buttons, checkboxes, and Submit buttons. For example, this CSS rule gives all the input elements a uniform background color as well as a specific color, font, and size for the text fields: input { background-color: #F5F5F5; color: #660099; font: 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } CSS styles the text fields for initial text as well as text entered by the user, as shown in Figure 14-15. FIGURE 14-15 Keep the text in your text fields looking like the rest of your page through CSS styling of the input tag. Remember that a multiline text field is really a different tag??”textarea??”than the singleline text field. You have to create a CSS rule for both input and textarea tags. One of the best uses for CSS and text fields is setting the width. This method is far more flexible and responsive than using the Char Width field on the Property inspector for each individual text field. It is best to set the width on a CSS class rather than alter it directly in the CSS rule for the input tag. Why? The width TIP TIP 514 Adding Advanced Design Features Part III setting not only affects all the single-line text fields, but it also alters checkboxes and radio buttons??” which are also input tags.