By and large one can use CSS to change the appearance of most HTML form controls - by and large. The one major exception is the
<input type=“file”>
control used to allow the user to select files for upload to a server. The block on styling this control is deliberate - the idea is to guard against a user accidentally giving away valueable personal information by uploading a file because he/she did not realize that this was being done owing to an upload control that had been styled out of all recognition.
Personally, I feel this is something of an exaggeration. The complete lack of styling over this control is quite galling - you can make a really pretty looking web page only to see it ruined by a file selector box that looks like it just stepped out of 1992.
Here is a way to get round the problem
http://www.explainth.at/en/html/fileupstyle.shtml
The technique requires Javascript to be enabled on the browser. Enjoy!