Changing Background Color of List Field

Hi northernpenguin,

If you're writing HTML, it's as simple as a little CSS: [url http://pietschsoft.com/post/2004/09/20/Color-the-background-of-items-in-a-Dropdown-box-in-your-HTML-pages.aspx]http://pietschsoft.com/post/2004/09/20/Color-the-background-of-items-in-a-Dropdown-box-in-your-HTML-pages.aspx[/url]

If you're asking about how to change the background colours of list field options inside the CMS Builder interface, there's currently no way to do that. It would be possible with a little bit of custom programming — please let me know if that's something you're interested in.

Chris: the HTML solution is partially what I was looking for. Let me explain. Lets say I have a list field in CMSB called "status", and its list values are: One, Two, Three, Four, Five

I want the value for "One" to display on the webpage as "One' with a red background; "Two" with a green background, "Three" with a purple background, etc.

So, I believe that I need to include some php code to check the value of "status" and, depending upon the value, set the background color.

Does that make sense?

Hi northernpenguin,

You can use IF statements to do this:

<?php
$css = '';
if ($record['status'] == 'One') { $css = 'background-color: red;'; }
elseif ($record['status'] == 'Two') { $css = 'background-color: green;'; }
elseif ($record['status'] == 'Three') { $css = 'background-color: purple;'; }
elseif ($record['status'] == 'Four') { $css = 'background-color: blue;'; }
elseif ($record['status'] == 'Five') { $css = 'background-color: orange;'; }
?>

<div style="<?php echo $css; ?>">
<?php echo htmlspecialchars($record['status']); ?>
</div>

Does this help? Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanx again, Chris.

It worked perfectly.