# Change text color for disabled input **URL:** \ **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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**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")
These forum posts may point you in the right direction: > [@Disabled Component Colors](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabled-component-colors/3927/5): > > @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): > > 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): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-text-color-for-disabled-input/14030)._