Change the Disabled Textbox/Textarea Text Color

[HawksIT]

I am in need to know how to change the text color from Grey once a Textbox/Textarea has been disabled. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

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MBaron007 wrote:
> I am in need to know how to change the text color from Grey once a Textbox/Textarea has been disabled. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.

I don't think you can, this is a function of the browser/OS.
Mick

[HawksIT]

I was told by Dreamweaver support that it could possibly be done using CSS.

[Newsgroup_User]

>I was told by Dreamweaver support that it could possibly be done using CSS.

That's a standard reply to these kinds of questions.

However I'm not 100% clear on exactly what you're asking. Can you explain
some more?

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John Waller

[HawksIT]

The standard text color of a disabled textbox/textarea is grey and I would like to change that color to black. The form will be printed and the grey text is not sufficient for my companies needs.

[Newsgroup_User]

It's not a user/browser configurable color. Sorry.


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"MBaron007" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> The standard text color of a disabled textbox/textarea is grey and I would
> like to change that color to black. The form will be printed and the grey
> text is not sufficient for my companies needs.

[Newsgroup_User]

Murray *ACE* wrote:
> It's not a user/browser configurable color. Sorry.

Sorry to disappoint you, but it is - at least in modern browsers. See my
other post.

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[Newsgroup_User]

John Waller wrote:
>> I was told by Dreamweaver support that it could possibly be done using CSS.
>
> That's a standard reply to these kinds of questions.

It also happens to be correct on this occasion. The following works in
Firefox and IE7 (haven't tested other browsers):

input[disabled] {
background-color: #f00;
}

This rule turns the background colour to red when an input field is
disabled. It uses an attribute selector, which modern browsers now support.

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[HawksIT]

David,

I need the Text color to change and not the background color. I have tryed the following CSS with no luck:
.disabledcolor {color: #000000}

Here is my code:

<textarea name="Goal1" disabled="disabled" class="disabledcolor" id="Goal1" style="width:425px" dojotype="dijit.form.Textarea" ><%=(Goals.Fields.Item("Goal1").Value)%></textarea>

[Newsgroup_User]

MBaron007 wrote:
> I need the Text color to change and not the background color. I have tryed
> the following CSS with no luck:
> .disabledcolor {color: #000000}
>
> Here is my code:
>
> <textarea name="Goal1" disabled="disabled" class="disabledcolor" id="Goal1"
> style="width:425px" dojotype="dijit.form.Textarea"
>> <%=(Goals.Fields.Item("Goal1").Value)%></textarea>

Unless the text on your page is a different colour from black, you won't
notice any change. The following style rule changes the colour in a
disabled text area to red (adjust it to your needs):

textarea[disabled] {
color:#f00;
}

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[19mjf67]

Check out this link.
http://www.askthecssguy.com/2007/05/shawn_asks_the_css_guy_about_s_1.html

Or this one.
http://quomon.com/question_css_disabled_textarea_textbox_835.aspx

[19mjf67]

Oh, you might want to just target the print media in your css so it only applies to printouts and not web pages.