Hi Guys

Yet another newbie, great forum. Have been finding a lot of problems i have run into on my own usually just by googling it, but it is time to ask for your help. A simple problem but i have tried everything but no joy. I want to alter the width of the text area (not page width). I did it once while potching about ages ago but cant do it now. I tried altering:
TEXTAREA {
float: left;
margin: auto;
display: block;
width:80%;
}
as you can see to 80% which is what i want in the CSS but no joy. Not sure if i have altered something else by accident that overrides this. I have only the left column showing and text does take the rest of the page up but cant change width, help please!!