[RESOLVED]setting gridview cell forecolor to backcolor

[ZeBula8]

I have a gridview in which i would like to 'hide' certain text in the cell.

Certain rows, I need to have the text hidden and
To achieve this, I want to set the tablecell's forecolor to the tablecell's backcolor property, thereby making the text invisible and hiding it.



In the RowDataBound event I have tried using this:

        Dim tc As TableCell = e.Row.Cells(4)
        tc.ForeColor = tc.BackColor
        tc = e.Row.Cells(5)
        tc.ForeColor = tc.BackColor

but when I step through this the BackColor is always rgb(0,0,0,0)

Does anyone know how I can achieve this ?

[StrangerInBeijing]

dude, actually I know nothing about this, so this is probably what I would do if I ran into this problem.

Make the color's private variables to the page (private string offColor= "#234234";, etc) and then use them where ever you need them?

Or switch between style classes (you do use style sheets don't you?)

[ZeBula8]

Actually, the rows are alternating so I won't know what row will have a particular colour at runtime.

[StrangerInBeijing]

every second row?
In such case put a counter in your loop (say i++ for each iteration) and then just :
if (i%2 = 0)
//use this color;
else
//use other color

[ZeBula8]

After much playing around - I found a couple of nice properties for GridView:

And then in the RowDataBound event of the GridView:

If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
        Dim AlternatingRowStyleValue As TableItemStyle
        Dim RowStyleValue As TableItemStyle

        AlternatingRowStyleValue = Me.GridView1.AlternatingRowStyle
        RowStyleValue = Me.GridView1.RowStyle

        If e.Row.RowIndex Mod 2 Then
          e.Row.Cells(4).ForeColor = AlternatingRowStyleValue.BackColor
          e.Row.Cells(5).ForeColor = AlternatingRowStyleValue.BackColor
        Else
          e.Row.Cells(4).ForeColor = RowStyleValue.BackColor
          e.Row.Cells(5).ForeColor = RowStyleValue.BackColor
        End If
End If

This effectively renders my selected text invisible....

Thanks, Stranger, for the Mod idea...