Question

I am dynamically generating the form based on the drop down selected.
The form consists of fields (data entry for decimal values + few text fields). Have to add all the decimal values at the end and update the Total TextBox with that value. Total Textbox is disabled.

When I click Save button on the form after the user have entered their values, whole form is persisted in viewstate except the disabled textbox. When I enable the textbox, everything works fine. Mind you, I am dynamically generating the form and updating the value of the total textbox using javascript to calculate (adding all decimal fields).

P.S. I am doing everything right for persisting the viewstate.

So what has the enabled/disabled got bearing on the viewstate

Answer 1

Basically, I added two statements to get it working.

txtBox.Attributes.Add("readonly", "readonly");
txtBox.Style.Add("color","gray");

When I used txtBox.Enabled = false, it didn’t persist viewstate but did it alternatively using above two statements in my code-behind page