> Hello Adrian,
>
> Yes, I had tried the way you did, it works on the one hand, however, on
> the other hand, I need to
> display the same forms, which has input fields with values, in a
> read-only mode. The entire form is read-only and I cannot make all the
> fields as output.
>
> I think the only way at this moment is the xxforms:readonly-appearance
> attribute, how can I change the style of that attribute in the CSS is my
> next question.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Nelson.
>
>
> On 2/7/07, *Adrian Baker* <[hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
>     Erik Bruchez wrote:
>      > Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>      >> Hi Nelson,
>      >>
>      >> On 2/4/07, Nelson Tsang <[hidden email]
>     <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>      >>> Yes, I'm thinking of the input fields (xforms:input). The case
>     is, for
>      >>> example, I have some
>      >>> fields which do the auto calculation in the form which is make
>      >>> read-only.
>      >>> However, it become
>      >>> grey out that is not what I want (since the grey color is a little
>      >>> bit hard
>      >>> to read in my form.)
>      >>
>      >> You can do this with CSS, by adding to your page, in the
>     <xhtml:head>:
>      >>
>      >> <xhtml:style type="text/css">
>      >>    .xforms-readonly input { background: white; color: black; }
>      >> </xhtml:style>
>      >>
>      >> This changes the way the browser renders disabled text fields.
>     But the
>      >> browser renders disabled text fields like this for a reason: it
>     give a
>      >> cue to the end user that the value cannot be modified. So I am
>      >> wondering if in this case using an <xforms:output> is not a better
>      >> option.
>      >
>      > Plus IE 6 ignores styling of read-only controls, so styling is not
>      > really a solution since Nelson uses IE.
>      >
>      > -Erik
>     I too had this exact problem: disabled inputs are too hard to read in
>     IE, and there is no way to style them.
>
>     Best bet is to stick to an output, and perhaps try and style it in such
>     a way that the user still understands it's 'data' rather than a label
>     etc. (eg different color, underline, etc, box effect using different
>     background color or border, etc)
>
>     Adrian
>
>
>
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