Locking a control in ASP.Net

Support123

Hi all... How does one lock a control (so that no info can be changed in lets say a dropdown box)? I want to display the info but not allow data to be changed manually?

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Michael Sync

Are you trying to do like locking the control on winform? If yes, this feature doesn't exist in webform. (AFAIK)

Support123 wrote:

I want to display the info

What kind of information you want to display? Example? I'm not so sure what you are trying to do. It is better if you tell us your scenario with the example.

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YeHtut

I understand that you want to do display only?? Dropdown box don't have a ready only property. So you canuse Enable property to false;

Support123

i want to make it so that the user cant enter anything but not to Enabled = false the control because it grays it out (i dont want that) I might be wrong (so please correct me if i am wrong i have been working with c# for a while but i have much to learn.) but isn't there a property in C# called Locked? So you could have something like: ControlName.Locked = True am i mistaken when i say that this bit of code locked the control so that no user input was excepted?.... If this is true... Is this property availible in ASP.Net as well?? (might it be that this property is only availible to textboxes???) Thank you in advance.

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Michael Sync

Support123 wrote:

it grays it out

I think you can change it to some other colors from CSS

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