How do you style a disbaled control? For example, I have a series of disabled textboxes that I would like to style.
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Apologies, I should've mentioned that it's a server <asp:textbox> control. I have assign a css class to my textboxes using the following code but when I disable the item the style is ignore and replaced with some generic style.
<asp:TextBox id="txtCommonTextBox" runat="server" CssClass="textcontrols"></
Allow me to continue. A disabled control is pretty much pointless. It's only disabled in the client, it won't be submitted to the server, it can be re-enabled in JavaScript and then it will be submitted to the server. So quite easy to hack, therefore you must write safeguards in your server code.
It would be much more straightforward to have a div element instead of a input control for disabled form controls. Then you can style them how you like, you could even get it looking identical to a real form field on at least one target browser & platform (but not all).
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by: jasonsbytesPosted on 2007-06-28 at 07:40:32ID: 19381164
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.disabledTxt
{
background-color: #111;
border: dashed 2px #eee;
}
</style>
<body>
<input type="text" class="disabledTxt" disabled>
</body>
</html>