Change background color of cells in DataGridView C#

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Hi,

I have a DatagridView (dgvEmployeeData) that is searched form a textbox (txtSearch).
What I want to happen is when the textbox has text in it I want all the cells in the database that are shown to have their background color changed to YellowGreen and when the textbox has no text in it the color to be changed back to white.

How would I do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Posted 18-Dec-13 15:32pm

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joginder-banger 18-Dec-13 22:11pm

Share your coding parts...for more clear what's you want..

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Solution 1

Hi Friend....

You are quiet good problem analyzer.

Try...to code this...

Here is the Solution...

on TextBox's textChanged Event try to use the DatagridView's CellFormatting properties and Event to change the Color of DataGridView's CELL as soon as you typed into TextBox.

Happy Programming....:-)

Posted 18-Dec-13 17:42pm

MayurDighe

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[no name] 18-Dec-13 23:49pm

Thanks, although I am good at problem anzlying, i'm not too good at problem solving! :)

How would I code what you said. I am very unfamiliar with DataGridView code and properties and I am also new to C# :D

Solution 3

I fixed the problem of the top left cell being not coloured by adding:

C#

dgvEmployeeData.ClearSelection();

at the end of the void and it works fine

Thanks for all the help

Posted 19-Dec-13 21:13pm

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Animesh Datta · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-18T19:38:00

Hello ,

you can use TextChanged event of that textbox like this way .

C#

private void txtenter_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           if (txtenter.Text.Trim().Length > 0)
           {
               foreach (DataGridViewRow dgvrow in dataGridView1.Rows)
               {
                   dgvrow.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.YellowGreen;
               }
           }
           else
           {
               foreach (DataGridViewRow dgvrow in dataGridView1.Rows)
               {
                   dgvrow.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.White;
               }

           }

       }

and then make foreach/ for loop to set the background color of the Datagridview . here i use

Trim()

for ignore the leading space while entering value in the textbox .

thanks