Passing CSS Styles in a drop-down box

Question

Hi Guys,

Yes im back again with another problem. I would imagine that
some of you out there use Helm to host your websites ? Well you may
have noticed the in-built billing system. You will have seen that
when you have a positive amount the colour is green and when your
balance is red, the text turns to red. Also the drop-down boxes in
the billing system and in various other places have green, orange,
red for different statuses such as inactive, banned and so on.

I am building a billing system for a website at the mo and i
thought it would be a very good idea if i could do something very
similar only i am unsure how to pass the colour values into my
database. Can i just input the HTML ?

I would really appreciate some guidance on this as its
starting to bug me and i've been trying to figure this out for
ages!

Thanks a bunch,
Adam

Newsgroup_User · Answer

Create the styles for your statuses in your site css

e.g.
.redstyle{
background-color: red;
}
.greenstyle{
background-color: green;
}

Then in the loop which displays the records from the DB check the status of
the DB column and apply the style accordingly

e.g.
If rs.Field.Item("ammount").Value > 0 Then
Response.Write("class=greenstyle")
Else
Response.Write("class=redstyle")
End If

Regards
Bren

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