Background/Text Issue with custom style

[AcesGaming]

Having a few issues here, would love any advice. I'm using VSa Chat and everything seems to work dandy thus far minus a minor issue with my current style. Which is white on black, versus the more common black on white.

My issue is that the text box, where a user enters their message, the default text that appears there "Message.." is in white, making it look invisible. I'd like to either turn that into black and have the shoutbox automatically display the text in white underneath, or an easier way, to simply hack the text-box background and make it a darker shade of gray accommodating for both white and black text.



Above is a Screenshot of the mod as is.



I've tried finding the CSS markups in Firebug and edited them to see how they'd look and I'm ok with the current result. Except I don't know where to find the matching CSS inside vB to ammend the changes.



Any help would be greatly appreciated.