Why does IE sets a disabled anchor color to grey and does'nt respect styles applied to it?

[Guest PhilDulac]

Ok, here's the situation...

.NET framework 3.5 renders a disabled anchor like this:

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For some reason, IE displays it grayed by default. The problem is, I need to apply a style on it, and it involves changing the text color.

To do some tests, I tried

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but IE refuses to display it red.

So, how can I display a red disabled anchor in IE 9?

Here's a link where you can do some tests:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_test

Thanks in advance!

 

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