How to set different color for a databind value?

What control are you using to display the data? gridview? If its a gridview the you can attach a sub similiar to the following to the onRowDatabound event.

 if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) {
        Label lbl = e.Row.FindControl("clientbalunfinish");
        if (lbl.Text.StartsWith("-")) {
            lbl.ForeColor = Drawing.Color.Red;
        }
        else {
            lbl.ForeColor = Drawing.Color.Blue;
        }
    }

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Sorry forgot to enclose in the sub

public void gridview1_OnrowDatabound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) {
        Label lbl = e.Row.FindControl("clientbalunfinish");
        if (lbl.Text.StartsWith("-")) {
            lbl.ForeColor = Drawing.Color.Red;
        }
        else {
            lbl.ForeColor = Drawing.Color.Blue;
        }
    }
}

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hi,... it works fine for me.....

aspx.....

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
        DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" onrowdatabound="GridView1_RowDataBound">
        <Columns>
            <asp:TemplateField>
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <asp:Label runat="server" ID="TextColor" Text='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"a") %>'></asp:Label>
                   
                </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:TemplateField>
            <asp:BoundField DataField="b" HeaderText="b" SortExpression="b" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="c" HeaderText="c" SortExpression="c" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="no" HeaderText="no" SortExpression="no" />
        </Columns>
    </asp:GridView>


aspx.cs......


protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
       
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            Label lblColor = new Label();
            lblColor = (System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label)e.Row.FindControl("TextColor");
            if (lblColor.Text == "1")
            {
                lblColor.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
            }
            else
            {
                lblColor.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
            }
        }
    }

Regards

Sandip Mishra

sorry, I use repeater to do it.

I would need something like

<asp:Label ID="clientbalunfinish" runat="server" Text='<%# ((Convert.ToInt32(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "clientbalunfinish")) > 0) ? "red text color" : "blue text color") + string.Format("{0:#,##0.00}",DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "clientbalunfinish"))%>'></asp:Label>

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perfect solution! thanks