I ask too many questions...

[jarnuts]

you can do this with html...

<IMG align="absmiddle" SRC="images/team.gif">
<SELECT NAME="newLoc" onChange="jumpPage(this.form.newLoc)" style="font-size: 7pt; background-color: #dfdfdf; font-family: Arial, Tahoma;" maxlength="20">
<OPTION VALUE="#">moderators</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="#">---------------------</OPTION>
$forum[moderators]</select></td></form></tr>
</tr>

try this for the font color..(you can use any HEX number ...I chose #DFDFD9

...... style="font-size: 7pt; background-color: #dfdfdf; font-family: Arial, Tahoma; font-color: #DFDFD9" maxlength="20">

and for the background color you can do this...same thing.choose any HEX color you wish...I will use DFDFD9 as the example...

...style="font-size: 7pt; background-color: #DFDFD9; font-family: Arial, Tahoma;" maxlength="20">