Step 7. Highlight a Column

In this step, you will investigate how a specific column can be identified and then create style sheet entry to change the background color for this column only.

1. Run the WAM iiiUsingCSS to display a list of employees. Using IE Developer Tools select the first input field in the first column (Employee Number).
   
   
   
   Note that the <td> tags for each column have a class equal to the field name. In the first column this is EMPNO.
   
   
2. Add this code to your style sheet and save the changes:
   

        TABLE#EMPLIST tr.list-o > TD.EMPNO
        {
             background-color: #d78700;
        }
        TABLE#EMPLIST tr.list-e > TD.EMPNO
        {
             background-color: #d78700;
        }

   
   This will override the background color for odd and even rows in table cells with a class of EMPNO.
   
   
3. Run your WAM iiiUsingCSS and display a list of employees. Your results should look like the following: