how to give background color to textarea field in bootstrap

Question

need give background color to My text area field in bootstrap this is text area field

<div class="form-group">
    <div class="col-xs-12">
     <textarea class="form-control" id="exampleTextarea" rows="6"  placeholder="Message"></textarea>
    </div>
   </div>

Answer 1

Add this class.

textarea#exampleTextarea {
    background: gray;
}

Or you can use this as well.

#exampleTextarea {
    background: gray;
}