Forgot to say that after you change the CSS settings you need to refresh the browser so that it picks up the changes

Well I've tried but can't get any changes I make to make a difference so I'm obviously doing something very basically wrong. Am refreshing the browser however. So I guess I'll just go with the flow.

Cheers Rod

Which browser are you using? IE8? We didn't test this particular one. Chrome, IE9, FF are all sensitive to the changes, but maybe IE8 isn't?

Anyway, if we do not receive any votes, we'll go with what we think is best.

a month later

I'm using build 1446 with Firefox and IE, can't really see any change either, still looks like light grey to me. Is there something which needs to be done on my side?

They are still grey but they shouldn't be as light grey as before. Previously read-only fields were displayed with the "disabled" HTML attribute. Apparently IE has no control whatsoever on how this attribute is displayed. In the latest version we have changed the "displayed" attribute to the "readOnly" attribute. It is still displayed as light grey but it can be controlled in the CSS file.

If you know how to check CSS settings in IE you can verify that the field has "read-only" attribute and you can play with is settings and then change them in the CSS file to be what you want them to be

5 months later

Are there any CSS settings that can be changed to improve the appearance of protected fields on mobile devices?

Try Google Chrome instead of a mobile device (it's the same family of browsers) and experiment with CSS. Log in to a mobile application using Chrome (use logonAdminM.html) and then right click on the element you want to experiment with to show a popup menu and select "Inspect Element". This should give you a great tool that displays all CSS/HTML settings for the element and allows you to change the settings in-line

Thank you for pointing out Chrome's 'Inspect Element', that truly is a helpful feature. I was able to find out what I needed to change, thanks again.