# Change text color for disabled input

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-text-color-for-disabled-input/14030>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 12, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-text-color-for-disabled-input/14030 "2017-04-12T18:16:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![abishur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/abishur/32/9096_2.png) [@abishur](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/abishur)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-text-color-for-disabled-input/14030/1 "2017-04-12T18:16:37Z")

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I’m using Ignition 7.6 on Windows 7.

On the numeric input (and text input) boxes when the “Enabled” property is set to false, it makes the background a light grey color and the foreground a slightly darker grey color. Is there anyway at all to change these default colors? I noticed that tere is an “Editable” and a “Protected Mode” field in the “Behavior” area, but I can find no way to read the current values of those in the expression area or else I would use that to set the color of the foreground.

Anyone run into this and know how to either change the default colors of non enabled objects or access the current value of “Editable” and/or “Protected Mode”?

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**Author:** ![kieran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@kieran](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kieran)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-text-color-for-disabled-input/14030/2 "2017-10-29T01:53:01Z")

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I would also like to know the answer to this question. Changing default text appearance of disabled text objects.

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**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-text-color-for-disabled-input/14030/3 "2017-10-29T05:19:39Z")

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These forum posts may point you in the right direction:

> [@Disabled Component Colors](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabled-component-colors/3927/5):
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> @Joseph If you can provide exactly what you wish to manipulate, I can take a whirl at it and see if I can help.

> [@Button text colour change on disable](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/button-text-colour-change-on-disable/1092):
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> Currently, when a button is disabled, only its border appearance changes. This is quite a subtle change and it can be hard to see if it is disabled or not. Normally the text colour of the button would be changed from black to grey when it is disabled. Unfortunately, it is not possible to bind directly against a button’s enabled status, so you have to add a dynamic property, drive it using the same logic as the enabled/disabled status and bind the foreground colour to the dynamic property. Th…

> [@Background Color Of Disabled Component](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/background-color-of-disabled-component/2316):
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> How do I change the appearance of a component’s background color when it is disabled? I want some pushbutton components to be disabled depending on the security of who is logged in. I can changed the foreground or text color just fine but I would like to know if the system just defaults the background color of disabled components to a certain color and whether or not I can change it. Thanks.