{"id":23,"date":"2011-02-10T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-02-10T18:34:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:34:12","slug":"changing-the-font-color-of-disabled-inputs-in-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/changing-the-font-color-of-disabled-inputs-in-ie\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the font color of disabled inputs in IE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the simplest solutions to a &quot;hard-coded&quot; aspect of Internet Explorer, which is that you can&#39;t adjust the font color of disabled form elements.<\/p>\n<p><code>&lt;input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;mytext&quot; readonly=&quot;true&quot; \/&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n<p>By using the <strong>readonly<\/strong> attribute, instead of the <strong>disabled<\/strong> attribute, you are able to style the font color while still preventing the user from modifying the value in the element.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the <strong>readonly<\/strong> attribute carries a few differences than disabled. Read-only form elements <strong>will <\/strong>be passed to the form processing script. They will also be in the tab order and display a caret cursor on hover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the simplest solutions to a &quot;hard-coded&quot; aspect of Internet Explorer, which is that you can&#39;t adjust the font color of disabled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}