Viewstate usually isn't required for textboxes, but be really careful with enabled/disabled. When a textbox is not enabled it will not post back its values (at least not through the POST data). This means ASP.NET can't pick up the data. I think what you're seeing with no values is an artifact of a postback where the values are not getting posted due to the disabled state.

I'm not sure offhand if ViewState might fix this or not - ASP.NET might figure out that a disabled control can't post back and therefore store its data in Viewstate - you have to try that.

A better thing to do might be to use ReadOnly and set the color to make it look like it's disabled.

+++ Rick ---



>i have an asp.net web page with some textboxes, an image button, and a calender. when i click on the image button it makes the calender visible or invisible. the problem is, some of my textboxes are losing their text and becoming blank. All the controls are on a panel, but only some of the textboxes are blanking, not all. I am noticing one thing. The boxes that keep the text have enabled = false. Only the text boxes that are enabled are losing the text. Doesn't make much sense to me. any suggestions?