ReadOnly and Enabled property of TextBox

One of thing about textbox that confuses me is the Enabled and ReadOnly Property. Both the property makes the text content non editable but there are couple of differences in the way they work.  Here they are:-

Difference No. 1

When we use Enabled Property to false, Textbox’s text is grayed out and we cannot focus on the control and when we use ReadOnly property to true then you will see that the textbox’s content is not grayed out but the content is non editable. 

Difference No. 2

When Enabled = “false” is used, control renders the HTML element as disabled=”disabled” and in case of ReadOnly=”true” then the HTML element is readonly=”readonly”.

I have read on some blogs that disabled controls values are not sent back to the server on postback but that’s not true. If you have disabled any control on client side then only its value will not be sent back to the server. Disabling on client side means either through JavaScript or by adding attributes to the control like

txt.Attributes.Add(”disabled”, “disabled”);

Enjoy…