Background and Font Colors on a Disabled TextBox

[markronz]

Hello everyone-
I have a form that I am making in Access. It has several textboxes on it with prepopulated information. All of these textboxes are currently disabled so that the user cannot edit them. There is a Modify button that I created, which makes all of these textboxes Enabled so that the user may user the text in them. The problem with this is that when you make a textbox disabled, it changes the texbox background and text to gray, which is harder to read. Of course, this is expected, but my question is, can you somehow change the background color and font color of a disabled cell? I am ok with the gray background, but I just want the text to be black instead of gray so that you can read it better.

So, to sum up, do you know how to change the font color of the text in a textbox while it is disabled?

Or is there a different solution to my problem instead of using disabled?

Thanks!
-Mark

 

[HarleyQuinn]

You could always just set the locked property to Yes instead. If you really wanted you could grey out the background and disable the tabstop so it looks disabled.

Hope this helps

HarleyQuinn
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