Thats your solution makes it seem so easy. I think I was over thinking it a bit.One question though, was is RowData in your code. I got an error saying that "RowData does not exist in the current context". John Taylor http://johntaylor.somee.com http://johntaylorfamily.com http://hubpages.com/profile/runsrealfast
----- Original Message ---- From: Dean Fiala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:51:31 PM Subject: Re: [AspNet2] Highlighting Cells in a Gridview Dynamically in the Row_DataBound event, you just need to grab the cell that has the magic value and set the color. Something like this... protected void YourGrid_RowDataBou nd(object sender, GridViewRowEventArg s e) { if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType. DataRow) { for (int ColIndex = 0; ColIndex < RowData.Row. Table.Columns. Count; ColIndex++) { int Hatch = 0; if (RowData[ColIndex] != DBNull.Value) { Hatch = (int)(RowData[ ColIndex] ); } if (Hatch > 0) { e.Row.Cells[ ColIndex] .BackColor = System.Drawing. Color.Red; } } } } On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:24 PM, John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hopefully someone can help me here, I am at a loss on how to do this. I > have a simple gridview that I would like to dynamically chance the > background color in certain cells that meet a certain criteria. The criteria > is this. The database table has 12 columns representing each month in the > calendar. This table holds information about fly-fishing hatches. If a > particular bug hatches in June (for instance) then June would hold a 1. > Assuming that is the only month that this bug hatches all the other months > would either be Null or 0. What I want the gridview to do is basically have > highlighted or colored cells for those with the 1 and just blank or white > (since that would be the page background color) for those with 0 or null. I > have searched around on the Internet with no real solution. There are lots > of solutions for highlighting a whole row, but not certain cells. It makes > me think that this is not possible in a gridview? Am I totally insane for > trying it this way? 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