A situation came up last week where I had a number of asp:textbox controls (which render as standard  HMTL Input Controls type=text). I wanted to load information into textbox's based on a selection from a combo/dropdown list box, but didn't wish the user to be able to modify the content.

The problem was when an input control has it's enabled property set to true, the text is grey and it just doesn't match the rest of the form. It also wasn't appropriate to use a div or span or lable - or at least it didn't seem to be correct.

The key is that the input control has a readonly property. So if you don't wish a user to modify the content, but you also don't want the control to look different, you can simply set the readonly property to readonly.

e.g. <input name='somename' id='samename' readonly='readonly' value='some value'> 

The other interesting side effect to this is that you can now change the color of the text.. if you want it to be blue, it can be blue (and not grey)

Hope that helps.

Rob