In our (intranet)-TWiki we work with tables pretty often. Many tables list some kind of tasks with a cell stating 'done' or something reporting the state of the task. This is where this feature-request stems from, because we'd like to color the cell-backgrounds of specific cells. Some basic colors would suffice to highlight certain areas of tables. There are probably a lot of other uses for this.

Right now there are three possible solutions for this:

• Use HTML-Tables - but: no TWiki-Syntax
• define a TWiki-wide alias and use it instead of the cell-border-character - but: this doesn't work in die first column. Example:

     * Set BGRED = [td][td bgcolor=#FF5050] (tr/[]/<>/, sorry, browser didn't show the tags ...)

     | *Header1* | *Header 2* | *Header 3* |
     | task 1 | goal %BGRED% done |

• Hack emitTR. emitTR could scan the cell for a specific notation, like |![A-Z] yadda | with the character specifying the background-color (maybe even configurable in some Property-Document) - but: we don't want to develop our own TWiki ;). This could look like:

     | *Header1* | *Header 2* | *Header 3* |
     | task 1 | goal |!R done |

What do you think ?

-- RalfBoetnagel - 22 Nov 2001

How about defining a preferences variable for each status with a colored background?, i.e. Set DONE =  DONE , and using %DONE% etc in your table cells?

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Nov 2001

I had a similar requirement. Solved it with stylesheets (see: UsingTopicToDefineCSS ):

 | <span class=\"$formfield(JobPriority)\">$formfield(JobPriority)</span> |

And in my stylesheet topic added:

.done {
font-weight: bold;
background-color: red;
}
.inprogress {
font-weight: bold;
background-color: green;
}

-- AdrianLynch - 23 Nov 2001