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Re: Read only fields

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Oct 11, 2006 6:10AM

> Lise L. Hansen

> Do you know whether it does not satisfy the standards of W3C if the
> background color of Read-only fields are being grayed out, or
> whether it
> is okay to do? As long as the contrast is still okay, of course.

To be idealistic, isn't that a user agent issue? (Unless you're explicitly setting a style for those form fields yourself)

Patrick
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