Form textarea format

Hi

I've created a form in a table and applied a CSS style to the table giving
it the desired layout, etc. Problem is that when F12'd, the text the user
types into the single line text fields is formated correctly but anything
put into a multiline field, comes out in the default font.

Probably something fairly basic i'm doing wrong but I'm sitting here
scratching my head. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Andy