I\'m putting an inner-shadow on all my controls, inputs and textareas by using the following CSS:
input { padding: 7px; -webkit-box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 2px
You could wrap the textarea in a div:
css:
.textarea-wrapper{ box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 2px 0px #ffffd; } textarea { padding: 10px; background: transparent; border: none; }
A jsFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/rXpPy/