Adding BackGround Colors to a data table

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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!!!
 
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.
 
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!!!


Eliyahu said:
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


colo said:
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!!!
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