Set gridview backcolor to color from datatable?

Question

I have a datatable that looks like this:

Row1       Row2    Row3    Row4    Row5    Row6
Gold       Gold              
Pink       Pink                       


        

Answer 1

You can check the value of each cell in the RowDataBound event and color the cell based on it's value.

protected void GridViewClicks_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    //check if the current row is a datarow
    if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
        //loop all the cells in the row
        foreach (TableCell cell in e.Row.Cells)
        {
            //check if the color is hex or a string
            if (cell.Text.Contains("#"))
            {
                cell.BackColor = ColorTranslator.FromHtml(cell.Text);
            }
            else
            {
                cell.BackColor = Color.FromName(cell.Text);
            }
        }
    }
}