Adding BackGround Colors to a data table

[colo]

This is a newbie question...

I have a webpage that is showing info from a database using a GridView
control. The problem is that I want to color specific Column in
different colors. For example...

Student Name - Grade - Quartile
John - 89 - 1
Lucy - 68 - 3
Mike - 89 - 1
Susy - 75 - 2
etc..

So for the Quartile Column I want to be able to color the cells that
have 1s in green, 2s in yellow, 3s in blue, etc... is this possible?

Thanks!!!

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Sure. You need to handle the grid's RowDataBound event. It fires for every
row. You get a reference to the row as an event parameter. You can check the
text value of the cell for Quartile and set it's background color
accordingly.

 

[colo]

Thanks Eliyahu

I tried:
If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
If e.Row.Cells(1).Text = "1" Then e.Row.Cells(1).BackColor
= Drawing.Color.Blue
If e.Row.Cells(1).Text = "2" Then e.Row.Cells(1).BackColor
= Drawing.Color.Red
If e.Row.Cells(1).Text = "3" Then e.Row.Cells(1).BackColor
= Drawing.Color.Yellow

End If

and it worked fine!!!

Sure. You need to handle the grid's RowDataBound event. It fires for every
row. You get a reference to the row as an event parameter. You can check the
text value of the cell for Quartile and set it's background color
accordingly.

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer & Consultant
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin

This is a newbie question...

I have a webpage that is showing info from a database using a GridView
control. The problem is that I want to color specific Column in
different colors. For example...

Student Name - Grade - Quartile
John - 89 - 1
Lucy - 68 - 3
Mike - 89 - 1
Susy - 75 - 2
etc..

So for the Quartile Column I want to be able to color the cells that
have 1s in green, 2s in yellow, 3s in blue, etc... is this possible?

Thanks!!!