Question

I’m overthinking this. I have colors stored in a database table, and I want to set the background of specific cells in a table to those colors. In other words:

<table>     <tr>         <td ???set color here???>             ...content...         </td>         <td ???next color here???>             ...next content...         </td>     </tr> </table> 

Originally I had Panels surrounding each piece of content and I set their background color in the code-behind, which worked fine until I had varying size panels, which threw off the layout. What’s the easiest way to feed the color values from the database to the <td> element? Note that the colors are user-configurable, so I can’t have them pre-defined in a CSS file.

Answer 1

You can make a custom CSS file with database data by creating a custom HttpHandler.
But the simple way woud be:

<td style='background-color:#000000'> ... </td> 

with

<td style='background-color:<%= GetCellColor() %>'> ... </td>