Quote Originally Posted by dim_kevin_as_human
actually, scratch that. I fixed that issue, and it doesn't error out...But it doesn't hide the caret.

maybe there is an easier way to do this. I want the textbox to appear to be disabled, but I want the color functionality to remain. The greyed out text is not what I want. And If I keep it enabled and just set it to read only, I'd like to not have the caret if a user trys to click in there.
well one way i know how to do this is put the textbox in a picturebox and disable the picturebox.