I think this is a great new feature in CRM 2011. Please refer to the following article that describes how to do this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500602
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500602
function setColor() { if (document.getElementById("new_name") != null) { //Add the below line if the field is disabled document.getElementById("new_name").disabled = false; //The below line changes the font color document.getElementById("new_name").style.color = "red"; } }Note: Accessing the DOM as shown above is totally unsupported. I had to use the above method since I was not able to find any supported way of achieving this functionality