>Hello World,
> I am having some major heartburn with linkbuttons. The problem is that I want the disabled linkbuttons to display with black text *NOT* grey. I know linkbuttons are rendered as anchor tags so I wrote my CSS like so:
>
>

>a[Disabled] {
>  	color: #FF0000;
>	font-weight: bold;
>	text-decoration: none;
>    FONT-SIZE: 22px;
>}
>

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>The color attribute is the only attribute that doesn't work. It is simply disregarded by the browser. I set the size to 22 to be sure It was "Listening" ... The bold and size display correctly but not the color.
>
>I also tried programatically setting the properties in code behind with the same results... Grey text I have tested this with inline code on a page with one disabled linkbutton control.
>
>My humble thanks in advance,

The real answer to this is to make the text of the linkbutton a span so you can control color. this closes the linkbutton tag creates a span and opens a new anchor. remember the linkbutton is rendered as a simple anchor on the client so the following is valid. Not as pretty as we would want but since Microsoft seems to know better than we do what our disabled controls should look like ...

lbX.Text = "</a><span class=\"PageLinkDisabled\">" + lbX.Text + "</span><a href=#>";

Hope this helps some one out there,