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Override the gray text generated from disabled="true"

 
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HI!
I've search high and low for a solution for this...so any ideas would be great!!
I need to display webpages in 'read' mode with all text fields disabled. To obtain the same look as 'edit' mode, I am using a .css to set a background color of light blue. Unfortunately, when I add disabled="true", the text becomes light gray and is barely visable (Acutally, it's barely visable when the background color is white!". I would like to overrid the light gray color and change it to black.
<input type="text" class="pagecontentreadonly" readonly="true" disabled="true" name="text" maxlength="8" size="8" value="" id="text">
 
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Instead of disabled try with readonly attribute
 
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That does work in some instances...but I am using STRUTS for some controls on the page and STRUTS will not accept readonly="true"...it's not defined in the tag library.
<html:select disabled="true" styleClass="pagecontentreadonly" name="ideaForm" property="initiativeList" multiple="true" size="5">
 
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There is nothing you can do unless you use javascript to recreate the effect of disabled, but it is a lot more work then that little tag.
 
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Thanks for the tip...I will stop trying to make it work and try to change the background color so the light gray is more readable!
 
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Have you tried to apply CSS styling to the field?
Does the Struts tag allow you to at least specify an id (or generate one from the name attribute)?
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Yes...tried that too
I'm using styleClass="pagecontentreadonly" ...
<html:select disabled="true" styleClass="pagecontentreadonly" name="ideaForm" property="initiativeList" multiple="true" size="5">
...defined on my .css as -->
.pagecontentreadonly { background: #EFEFF1; color: black; font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; }
and it still overrides the text of color:black!
 
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Ick, ugh, the other tactic I can think of would be, since Struts won't let you specify readonly on the tag, is to sledge-hammer this setting in the onload() handler. Something like:

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[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]
 
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Hi Tricia!

Just wanted to know whether you were able to solve the problem because i and a friend of mine also are looking for a solution on how to override the gray text generated from disabled="true". Like you, we already tried the css. All font properties can be edited but not its color. Pls. reply.
Thanks.

Cindy
 
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Only thing you can do is set the field to readOnly and change the properties of it that way.

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If this field is read only, why dont you just use a span with nice formating to replicate input look and feel? This way you able to change anything, and user can't use scriplets to enable a field.
If you expect this value to be submitted, put an <input type=hidden>
 
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disabled fields usually do not get submitted....That is what I am thinking off the top of my head, or I could be still asleep!
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