How to change font-color for disabled input?

I need to change the style for a disabled input element in CSS.

<input type="text" class="details-dialog" disabled="disabled" />

How I can do this for Internet Explorer?

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: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411044/ > - 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: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/602070/changing-font-colour-in-textboxes-in-ie-which-are-disabled/602298#602298

You can:

input[type="text"][disabled] {
   color: red;
}

The following gets you pretty close in IE8 and works in other browsers too.

In your html:

<input type="text" 
       readonly="readonly"    <!-- disallow editting -->
       onfocus="this.blur();" <!-- prevent focus -->
       tabindex="-1"          <!-- disallow tabbing -->
       class="disabledInput"  <!-- change the color with CSS -->
       />

In your CSS:

.disabledInput {
    color: black;
}

In IE8, there is a slight amount of border color change on hover. Some CSS for input.disabledInput:hover could probably take care of this.

input[disabled], input[disabled]:hover { background-color:#444; }

Replace disabled with readonly="readonly". I think it is the same function.

<input type="text" class="details-dialog" readonly="readonly" style="color: ur color;">

It seems nobody found a solution for this. I don't have one based on only css neither but by using this JavaScript trick I usually can handle disabled input fields.

Remember that disabled fields always follow the style that they got before becoming disabled. So the trick would be 1- Enabling them 2-Change the class 3- Disable them again. Since this happens very fast user cannot understand what happened.

A simple JavaScript code would be something like:

function changeDisabledClass (id, disabledClass){
var myInput=document.getElementById(id);
myInput.disabled=false;             //First make sure it is not disabled
myInput.className=disabledClass;    //change the class
myInput.disabled=true;             //Re-disable it
}

It is the solution that I found for this problem:

//If IE

inputElement.writeAttribute("unselectable", "on");

//Other browsers

inputElement.writeAttribute("disabled", "disabled");

By using this trick, you can add style sheet to your input element that works in IE and other browsers on your not-editable input box.

You could use the following style with opacity

input[disabled="disabled"], select[disabled="disabled"], textarea[disabled="disabled"] {
    opacity: 0.85 !important;
}

or a specific CSS class

.ui-state-disabled{
    opacity: 0.85 !important;
}

This works for making disabled select options act as headers. It doesnt remove the default text shadow of the :disabled option but it does remove the hover effect. In IE you wont get the font color but at least the text-shadow is gone. Here is the html and css:

select option.disabled:disabled{color: #5C3333;background-color: #fff;font-weight: bold;}
select option.disabled:hover{color:  #5C3333 !important;background-color: #fff;}
select option:hover{color: #fde8c4;background-color: #5C3333;}

<select>
     <option class="disabled" disabled>Header1</option>
     <option>Item1</option>
     <option>Item1</option>
     <option>Item1</option>
     <option class="disabled" disabled>Header2</option>
     <option>Item2</option>
     <option>Item2</option>
     <option>Item2</option>
     <option class="disabled" disabled>Header3</option>
     <option>Item3</option>
     <option>Item3</option>
     <option>Item3</option>
</select>

You can use readonly instead. Following would do the trick for you.

<input type="text" class="details-dialog" style="background-color: #bbbbbb" readonly>

But you need to note the following. Depends on your business requirement, you can use it.

> A readonly element is just not editable, but gets sent when the > according form submits. A disabled element isn't editable and isn't > sent on submit.

You can simply apply CSS to disabled input

input:disabled {
  color: black;
}