Question

I have a Data Grid View and am wondering if it is possible to highlight only certain rows that contain a specific column value.

So I would like all of the rows to be defaulted to black with white text except for any row that has a specified column that equals FUJI/UNIVERSAL. For this row, I would like it to be yellow with black text.

So my question is.. is this possible? and if so, how?

Answer 1

The best place is the RowPrePaint event of the DataGridView.

Here is how you can achieve this.

void dataGridView1_RowPrePaint(object sender,
        DataGridViewRowPrePaintEventArgs e)
{
    if (dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[0].Value == "YourConditionalValue")
    {
        dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.Yellow;
    }
}