CSS in form

Hi to all!

the subject speaks for himself, how can i make a custom made form, a list menu or buttons using CSS? just like the ones that being used in this site.

Thanks.

take a look at this beutifully-crafted site http://www.shiver7.com/?p=contact .. this is what im talking about... but still wonder if they use CSS to make their form...

http://www.google.nl/search?q=css+%2B+forms&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=nl&lr=

Plus you can always just view the source of the CSS file to see how they do anything with CSS...

you can apply: (just for example)
border:1px red solid
background-color: lime

essentially you would use the < input > and < textarea > tags to apply the styles.

for example:

< input class="myCssForm" >......

then you would have a class of styles to define myCssForm

eg:

.myCssForm {

....styles .....

}

my 2 cents:

i wouldn't manipulate forms to the point of not looking like web forms any more. there is no need to.

a little customization is fine, but i think shiver7 went a bit overboard.

They are simply using images to replace the html fields. So there would be an image for the bakground of the input and text areas. There isnt really any manipulation going on.

But they don't look like standard forms anymore, which could throw some people off and confuse them.

but since his site is aimed at web designers, they probably wouldn't have any trouble with it.

but i know i've been confused by some sites that did stuff like that, it looked so different than a normal form that I didn't even know where to click or that I even could click.

Yeah I get what you are meaning. It looks nice though....

thnks guys for the support.

as for me,i dnt want always to look as BASIC, you know, doing the normal thing.. if you have a better idea why dnt give it a try.. but as they say, theirs always a limitation in evrything that we do for things not to look odd.
as for the shiver7 site, their graphic-minded webmaster go beyond what we Normal designer can even think of thus looking at those kind of site sometimes be overrated.
but infairness, i do like their craftmanship.
hey Marble! pardon me but i didt understand your code. thanks though.