Disable a field keeping text black?

I have a dropdown box that may or may not be disabled depending on what the
user's selected. Disabling it stops any changes & focus but the text
automatically turns grey. Is there anyway to keep the text black but the
background still grey?

Tried with CSS & although can get the background to change to grey I can't
find a way of preventing changes (& focus)?

any ideas

many thanks

J.H

harry

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"harry" <> said:

> I have a dropdown box that may or may not be disabled depending on what the
> user's selected. Disabling it stops any changes & focus but the text
> automatically turns grey. Is there anyway to keep the text black but the
> background still grey?

the colors are dependent on the visitors settings, they may not
necessarily be the same as your grey.

some browser allow you to change the fore and/or background colors with
the usual CSS but i would strongly recommend against it.

a person can instantly recognize that something is unavailable to them
with their normal colors/styles. when you change them they have no idea
what the colors may represent.

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