BackgroundColor (Property)

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BackgroundColor

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Example

Background color of an Edit control

Background color of a List Box or Combo Box control

Background color of a Static control

Background color of a Button control

Background color of a Radio Button or Check Box control

Background color of a TreeView control

Background color of a Table control and its cells, columns or rows

Background color of a cell

Limitations

See also

BackgroundColor (Property)

In french: CouleurFond

Warning
From version 24, BrushColor is kept for backward compatibility. This property is replaced by BackgroundColor.

The BackgroundColor property is used to get and change the background color of:

a control.
a window.
a page.
a report block.
text in a menu option.

Remark: The effects of the BackgroundColor property depend on the type of control (for more details, see "Remarks").

Example

// The background color is modified according to the displayed value
IF EDT_Total > 15000 THEN
EDT_Total.BackgroundColor = LightRed
END

Syntax

Determining the background color Hide the details

<Background color> = <Element used>.BackgroundColor

<Background color>: Integer or constant

Color of the specified element. Corresponds to one of the following options:
an RGB color (returned by RGB),
a preset color.
The color is returned as a string by the browser.

<Element used>: Type of element

Name of the element to be used: control, window, page or report block.

Changing the background color Hide the details

<Element used>.BackgroundColor = <New color>

<Element used>: Type of element

Name of the element to be used: control, window, page or report block.

<New color>: Integer or constant

New color for the specified element. Corresponds to one of the following options:
an RGB color (returned by RGB),
an HSL color (returned by HSL),
a preset color.

Remarks

Background color of an Edit control

The BackgroundColor property is used to get and change the background color of the text entered in a control.

Background color of a List Box or Combo Box control

The BackgroundColor property is used to get and change the background color of:

All the options of the control.
A single option.
This feature is not available in WEBDEV.

Background color of a Static control

The BackgroundColor property is used to get and change the background color of the text in a Static control.

Background color of a Button control

The BackgroundColor property is used to change the background color of a Button control.

Background color of a Radio Button or Check Box control

The BackgroundColor property is used to get and change the background color of a Radio Button or Check Box control.

Background color of a Radio Button control

Background color of a TreeView control

The BackgroundColor property is used to get and change the background color of:

All the options of the TreeView control.
A single option.

To get or change the background color of an option in the TreeView control, use the following syntax:

<TreeView control>[RowNum]

Example: the following code changes the background color of the second row in the TreeView control:

TREE_Treeview1[2].BackgroundColor = LightGreen

Background color of a Table control and its cells, columns or rows

Used on the entire Table control, the BackgroundColor property allows you to:

Delete the colors specific to the cells and columns via the following syntax:

<Table control>.BackgroundColor = DefaultColor
Change the background color of all the columns in the Table control (especially columns and cells with no background color). For example, the following code applies blue color to all the columns:

<Table control>.BackgroundColor = DarkBlue

This property gets and sets the background color of a cell in a Table control. The following syntax must be used to specify the cell:

<Table control>[RowNum][ColumnNum]

Example: The following code changes the background color of the cell in the first row of the second column.

TABLE_Table1[1][2].BackgroundColor = DarkBlue

Background color of a Table control cell

Caution: To keep the background color when selecting a row in a Table control based on a data file, simply use the BackgroundColor property in the "Select a row" process.

The BackgroundColor property is available in browser code only for Table controls in "Browser" mode on:

Rows of the Table control (browser).
Columns of the Table control (browser).
Cells of the Table control (browser).

This property is not available in browser code for Table controls in "Server" or "Server + AJAX" mode.

Background color of a cell

The BackgroundColor property gets and sets the background color of cells in WEBDEV pages.

Limitations

Limitations on report controls
The BackgroundColor property has no effect on:

reports (as a whole).
Internal Report controls.
Signature controls.

Limitations on page controls
The BackgroundColor property has no effect on the elements of a List Box or Combo Box control.

In browser code, the BackgroundColor property works only on the following controls:

edit controls,
List Box controls and elements in a List Box control,
Combo Box controls and elements in a Combo Box control,
rows of a Table control,
Static and HTML Static controls.
3-state Button controls.
Check Box and Radio Button controls.
Image controls.
"Formatted display" controls.
Link controls.
HTML controls.
cells.
Thumbnail controls.
iFrame controls.
rows of a Table control in "Browser" mode.
columns of a Table control in "Browser" mode.
cells of a Table control in "Browser" mode.

The BackgroundColor property can also be used on pages.