Text Input Element: Override Filled Darker Property?

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Posted on by AC-16041448-0

Hello Gurus,

I have a Gallery view set up using Text Input objects to display various fields from a collection. Most of the fields are View only with a few fields being editable to allow user updates. To denote the fields that cannot be changed, I want to grey them out, which is via this 'Filled Darker' selection in the Appearance property. This works fine, but they grey is hard to distinguish, so I'd like to make it a little darker grey.

The trouble is, I cannot seem to override this 'Filled Darker' setting. You can see per my screenshot below, I've changed it to a way darker grey, but it did not change the color at all. Is there a way to override this setting?

Here's the Appearance property as well per the formula bar:

If I change the Appearance to an RGBA formula, (i.e. RGBA(208, 206, 206, 1)), I get error message "Expected Enum value." Any workarounds to bypass this setting would be much appreciated. Thank you!

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venturemavenwill 1,189 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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I believe the Appearance parameter only accepts options, so setting appearance to a RGBA formula would definitely not work.

However, there should be a "Fill" Parameter that you can enter a custom RGBA formula to change the fill colour in a modern text input

Let me know if this helps!

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@venturemavenwill Thank you for the reply, but I already mentioned that using Fill property doesn't work. It only accepts the Fill property when the Display Mode is set to 'Edit'. When the Display mode is set to 'View' it doesn't recognize any Fill property updates.

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Hi @AC-16041448-0,

I believe when you change the text input Display mode to anything other than edit it ignores your fill property, and at this time there is no way to change the fill I believe on the modern text input.

You either have to use the classic control for more control over the colours or you can place it in a container and set the background fill of that to the colour you want when the text input is "Disabled", as when disabled the modern text input becomes transparent.

Only thing to be aware of when using the container option is the disabled state has a set font colour which again you cannot change frustratingly!

Hope this helps!

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Hi @AC-16041448-0,

What about setting the displaymode to Disabled? Sounds like that's more in line with what you are trying to achieve.

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@venturemavenwill I tried that as well, but it literally does the same thing but inversed: It makes the field transparent, w/ no way to override the transparency setting as well. ):

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@LowCodeJim Thank you... I think I may have to go with the Classic Text Input Control. (Ugh)

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