Here's a simple code to add any sort of background to a boring textarea. remember to replace [ ] with < >

[input TYPE="text" NAME="mom" SIZE="15" STYLE="font-size: 9px; font-family: trebuchet ms; color:#ffffff; background-image:url(yourimage.GIF); border:1px solid #; border-style: solid; border-top-color: #; border-left-color: #; border-bottom-color: #; border-right-color: #;"]

so the results look like this:

you can also use [ background-image:url(yourimage.gif); ] to buttons, just copy and paste it into the button code.