Solution: Changing color of disabled checkbox or radioButton

Jayvardhan Patil — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:21:00 +0000

Applies to: C#.NET/VB.NET (Windows Programming).

1. Making it gray

After being disabled, the checkbox and radiobutton control’s ForeColor turns contrast to the BackColor of the form.
This behavior is good because it increases the readability of your forms.

But in some cases this is really not desired.

So in that case you can make the CheckBox/RadioButton gray by setting its

BackColor = Color.Transparent
This will give you desired output.

2. Changing the ForeColor

Sorry I do not have anything to offer you on the front.

There is a private property to the control class which seems to be deciding the disable backcolor of the Checkbox/radioButton.

If anyone has any idea about this let me know.

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Solution: Changing color of disabled checkbox or radioButton