How to change a table cell's background color?

[HB]

So I have a table in ASP.NET

<table runat="server" id="tblMyTable" >
<tr>
<td id="cellMyCell" >word</td>
</tr>
</table>

How do I reference the cell "cellMyCell " from the Vb.NET 1.1 code-behind to
change the background color of the cell?

[HB]

Re: How to change a table cell's background color?

I forgot to add "without referencing row or cell numbers". I want to do it
by names, but the Rows(x).Cells(x ) stuff just wants numbers. Yeah, I
could use an enum list but I'd like to know how to do this by "id" name.

"HB" <replywithingro up@notreal.com> wrote in message
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> So I have a table in ASP.NET
>
> <table runat="server" id="tblMyTable" >
> <tr>
> <td id="cellMyCell" >word</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> How do I reference the cell "cellMyCell " from the Vb.NET 1.1 code-behind
> to change the background color of the cell?
>[/color]

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Re: How to change a table cell's background color?

Write a little utility method that will take the cell id as a parameter and
loop through the Rows and Cells collections. Likely, you can use the
FindControl method to find a cell within a row.

Eliyahu

"HB" <replywithingro up@notreal.com> wrote in message
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>I forgot to add "without referencing row or cell numbers". I want to do it
>by names, but the Rows(x).Cells(x ) stuff just wants numbers. Yeah, I
>could use an enum list but I'd like to know how to do this by "id" name.
>
> "HB" <replywithingro up@notreal.com> wrote in message
> news:LE37g.5530 $yM.3162@tornad o.socal.rr.com. ..[color=green]
>> So I have a table in ASP.NET
>>
>> <table runat="server" id="tblMyTable" >
>> <tr>
>> <td id="cellMyCell" >word</td>
>> </tr>
>> </table>
>>
>> How do I reference the cell "cellMyCell " from the Vb.NET 1.1 code-behind
>> to change the background color of the cell?
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[HB]

Re: How to change a table cell's background color?

It seems there must be normal way to just reference the cell by its ID name.
Anyone know?


"Eliyahu Goldin" <removemeegoldi n@monarchmed.co m> wrote in message
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> Write a little utility method that will take the cell id as a parameter
> and loop through the Rows and Cells collections. Likely, you can use the
> FindControl method to find a cell within a row.
>
> Eliyahu
>
> "HB" <replywithingro up@notreal.com> wrote in message
> news:mv57g.5543 $yM.5352@tornad o.socal.rr.com. ..[color=green]
>>I forgot to add "without referencing row or cell numbers". I want to do
>>it by names, but the Rows(x).Cells(x ) stuff just wants numbers. Yeah, I
>>could use an enum list but I'd like to know how to do this by "id" name.
>>
>> "HB" <replywithingro up@notreal.com> wrote in message
>> news:LE37g.5530 $yM.3162@tornad o.socal.rr.com. ..[color=darkred]
>>> So I have a table in ASP.NET
>>>
>>> <table runat="server" id="tblMyTable" >
>>> <tr>
>>> <td id="cellMyCell" >word</td>
>>> </tr>
>>> </table>
>>>
>>> How do I reference the cell "cellMyCell " from the Vb.NET 1.1 code-behind
>>> to change the background color of the cell?
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Mark Rae]

Re: How to change a table cell's background color?

"HB" <replywithingro up@notreal.com> wrote in message
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[color=blue]
> It seems there must be normal way to just reference the cell by its ID
> name. Anyone know?[/color]

1) Make sure your <td /> includes the runat=server tag

2) Declare your tablecell object server-side - can't remember exactly how to
do it in VB.NET, but in C# it's

protected HtmlTableCell cellMyCell;

3) When you want to change the background colour, do something like:

cellMyCell.Back Color = Color.Red;