Prevent a readonly textbox from being grayed out in Silverlight

Question

In Silverlight, How do I make a TextBox with IsReadOnly=\"True\" not become grayed out. The gray effect looks horrible with my app and I would like to disable it, o

Answer 1

Until the definition/behavior/appearance of a button changes, another more elegant solution is to simply change your TextBox to a Button. Change the 'Text' property to a 'Content' property to set the text displayed, remove the 'IsReadOnly' setting and you will have the effect you desire, I believe (a flat text-box-like control that supports text and all the border, background, foreground properties of a TextBox without the opacity change [graying-out] and the hassle of defining a new style).

When a user attempts to interact with this control, it's features change on the click event, but without an event handler associated with the button, there will be no impact to your interface. In fact, I think the default button behavior makes the effect appear kind of "cool".