How to Change the Font Color of a Disabled Textbox

How to change the font color of a disabled TextBox?

NOTE: see Cheetah's answer below as it identifies a prerequisite to get this solution to work. Setting the BackColor of the TextBox.

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I think what you really want to do is enable the TextBox and set the ReadOnly property to true.

It's a bit tricky to change the color of the text in a disabled TextBox. I think you'd probably have to subclass and override the OnPaint event.

ReadOnly though should give you the same result as !Enabled and allow you to maintain control of the color and formatting of the TextBox. I think it will also still support selecting and copying text from the TextBox which is not possible with a disabled TextBox.

Another simple alternative is to use a Label instead of a TextBox.

How to change font-color for disabled input?

You can't for Internet Explorer.

See this comment I wrote on a related topic:

There doesn't seem to be a good way,
see:
How to change color of disabled html controls in IE8 using css
- you can set the input to readonly instead, but that has other
consequences (such as with readonly,
the input will be sent to the server
on submit, but with disabled, it won't
be): http://jsfiddle.net/wCFBw/40

Also, see: Changing font colour in Textboxes in IE which are disabled

I want to change the font color of a disabled input

You can add this CSS class in your styles.scss file :

For label

.mat-form-field-appearance-outline.mat-form-field-disabled.mat-form-field-label {
  color: rgba(0,0,0,.6)!important;
}

For input value

.mat-form-field-type-mat-native-select.mat-form-field-disabled .mat-form-field-infix::after, .mat-input-element:disabled {
  color: rgba(0,0,0,1)!important;
}

Disabled Textbox Font Colour

You could use the .locked property, like so

Private Sub UserForm_Click()

    custom_lock Me.TextBox1

End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_DblClick(ByVal Cancel As MSForms.ReturnBoolean)

    custom_unlock Me.TextBox1

End Sub

Function custom_lock(tb As MSForms.TextBox)

tb.ForeColor = vbRed
tb.Locked = True

End Function

Function custom_unlock(tb As MSForms.TextBox)

tb.ForeColor = vbBlack
tb.Locked = False

End Function

Change the font color of disabled input text box?

There is no way to do it - what you can do instead though is change the input to readonly:

<input class="TextBoxAsLabel" data-val="true" data-val-number="blah" readonly="readonly" id="Total" name="XTotal" type="text" value="$0.00" />

This will give you the disabled functionality but preserve styling :)

See this post for more details: How to change font-color for disabled input?

Hope This Helps.

Change a textbox colour when disabled C#

When a TextBox is disabled, it ignores the ForeColor. You can override this by implementing your custom painting.

From the source Thread:-

You can override the OnPaint event like something like this:-

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
     SolidBrush drawBrush = new SolidBrush(ForeColor);
     // Draw string to screen.
     e.Graphics.DrawString(Text, Font, drawBrush, 0f,0f); 
}
set the ControlStyles to "UserPaint"

public MyTextBox()//constructor
{
     // This call is required by the Windows.Forms Form Designer.
     this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint,true);

     InitializeComponent();

     // TODO: Add any initialization after the InitForm call
}

CSS: How to change font color for a specific disabled field?

Switch the input selector for your ID:

#thisOne[disabled=disabled] { color: #fff !important; background: red;}

<input id="thisOne" disabled="disabled" value="Lorem ipsum">
<input id="notThisOne" disabled="disabled" value="Lorem ipsum">

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