I have been having this problem for a while now, after code diving for a day I have found that the script <ui><textEdit/></ui>has been falling out randomly for some reason.  I inserted the script above the <value> line and the text box is editable again.  THANK YOU LORD!!!

Lets take this a step further.  once an item has been selected in DD1 I want to make the Items that are not selectable in DD2  "faded out" or "watermarked".  Where would we insert the font.attributes?

Thanks to your help I have got it working now.  I played around with your example here is your modified example of what I was trying to accomplish...https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12892158/Limit_DDL_Selection.pdf   Thank you for your help.

Here is my entire code for DDL1.  In case "LS32CS - CSA Approved Switch": i do not want  DropDownList3.addItem("FLD - Field Config.") to be selectable??DropDownList3.clearItems();var sNewSel = this.boundItem(xfa.event.newText);switch (sNewSel){  case "VS5100 - Dual Channel VERSA-SWITCH":    DropDown...

Thanks for the example, but your form doesnt work?

Ok this may help me but I have a few issues.  When I apply specfy item values then my dropdowns do not populate.  So I have my values spelled out.  So with that my code for dropdown1 goes as follows in the change event. case "LS32CS - CSA Approved Switch":    DropDownList3.addItem("FLD - Field Confi...

I have dropdown1 with items1-3.  I have dropdown2 with items 1-10.  When item1 is selected in dropdown1 I want dropdown2 to display all 10 items but some items be inaccessible(faded out) and not selectable. (example) item1  =    [dropdown2] item 1 = selectable                [dropdown2] item 2 = sel...