Forms

I read this tutorial on making forms in flash:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_email.htm
and it seems pretty simple. so i go ahead making one. I’ve com across a little problem though. I cant seem to create a ‘fashionable’ text input field.
Can you change the default border color settings on a text input field? for example on this website the input fields have dotted line on them instead of a solid color. How did he do that? Also as of now i am using the text tool to make text input fields, should i be using the compents or something?
thanks!