How would i make my drop down background black?

[jesse23]

So i have just recently installed a drop down menu that uses php to set a cookie. That page can be seen here.[url=http://www.campusgoal.com/school.php]www.campusgoal.com/school.php[/url] i am wondering how would i change the background of this to black and where is says school to white? Below i have posted the php code.
[code]<form action="setcookie.php"  method="post">

<?


echo '<p><label for="school"><strong>School : </strong></label><select name="school" id="school">'."\n";

$sql = "SELECT ID, School FROM School";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $db);
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);
if($count == 0)
{
    echo '<option>No Schools added yet.</option>';
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
    echo '<option value="'.$row['ID'].'"';
    if($_COOKIE[Cookie]['SchoolID'] == $row['ID']) { echo ' selected'; }
    echo '>'.$row['School'].'</option>'."\n";
}
echo '</select>';

?><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go" /></p>

</form>[/code]

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[JasonLewis]

that is not really to do with php but to do with css. change this:

[code]<select name="school" id="school">[/code]

to this:
[code]<select name="school" id="school" style="background-color:black; color: white">[/code]

i think that should do the trick though.

[jesse23]

so close, it changed the actual drop down to black. Is there anything else that might change that outside black? ;D

[bibby]

Will that work in Safari?
I usually don't style form elements because of that.

What I see with Ubuntu/Firefox, it looks pretty cool

[jesse23]

AHH safari, i cant tell you how many times i have had problems with previewing my site in safari and firefox and IE. They just cant seem to display the net the same. Yeah it dosent work in safari. I know i think it looks kind of cool like that too.