How to change the font color of a disabled TextBox?

Question

Does anyone know which property sets the text color for disabled control? I have to display some text in a disabled TextBox and I want to set its color to blac

Answer 1

You can try this. Override the OnPaint event of the TextBox.

    protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
     SolidBrush drawBrush = new SolidBrush(ForeColor); //Use the ForeColor property
     // Draw string to screen.
     e.Graphics.DrawString(Text, Font, drawBrush, 0f,0f); //Use the Font property
}

set the ControlStyles to "UserPaint"

public MyTextBox()//constructor
{
     // This call is required by the Windows.Forms Form Designer.
     this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint,true);

     InitializeComponent();

     // TODO: Add any initialization after the InitForm call
}

Refrence

Or you can try this hack

In Enter event set the focus

int index=this.Controls.IndexOf(this.textBox1);

this.Controls[index-1].Focus();

So your control will not focussed and behave like disabled.

Answer 2

Just handle Enable changed and set it to the color you need

private void TextBoxName_EnabledChanged(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    ((TextBox)sender).ForeColor = Color.Black;
}

Answer 3

In addition to the answer by @spoon16 and @Cheetah, I always set the tabstop property to False on the textbox to prevent the text from being selected by default.

Alternatively, you can also do something like this:

private void FormFoo_Load(...) {
    txtFoo.Select(0, 0);
}

or

private void FormFoo_Load(...) {
    txtFoo.SelectionLength = 0;
}