I've got an HTML page with a standard textarea on it, which is disabled to stop users editing the text. I've changed the state of the textarea to disabled and as expected, the text appears grey in IE7. Thinking it would be a straight forward task to modify the default text colour, I created a simple textarea class to change the colour of the text to make it clearer but this has no effect in IE7, though FireFox 2.0.0.14 displays it perfectly. Is there anyway to 'fudge' IE into displaying the text. I'd rather not use javascript to do this, if at all possible.