How to write grey text on edit box?

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Published on 2010-01-22T05:39:14Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 15:43 UTC
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Hi

I want to set some text on my edit box, but it should be greyed.

Is there some way to do that?

I am not able to find the proper API for this.

Any suggestions?

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