Can I add color to FitNesse test table cells?

Question

I would like to be able to add coloured backgrounds to FitNesse table cells (sometimes entire rows) to enhance their readability. I'm happy if these colours are overwritten when a test page is run. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

You can apply custom styles to any fitnesse cell by using the

!style_(text)

widgit. Where (text) is the name of some css class you have defined. You can see the various options for formatting the fitnesse wiki pages at fitnesse.org

EDIT : It looks as though the style widgit is only useful for formatting text not in a fixture table. For example:

!|Store Data Dictionary Table|VALUE_SET_VALUE|
|!style_strike(ValueSetID)|Code|Label|
|MCODESET|1|RESPONSE1|
|MCODESET|2|RESPONSE2|
|MCODESET|3|RESPONSE3|
|MCODESET|4|RESPONSE4|

does not set the style of ValueSetId to the strike class. But removing the ! from the table itself like so does work:

|Store Data Dictionary Table|VALUE_SET_VALUE|
|!style_strike(ValueSetID)|Code|Label|
|MCODESET|1|RESPONSE1|
|MCODESET|2|RESPONSE2|
|MCODESET|3|RESPONSE3|
|MCODESET|4|RESPONSE4|

You could also try applying the style directly like so:

!|Store Data Dictionary Table|VALUE_SET_VALUE|
|!-<span class="strike">ValueSetID</span>-!|Code|Label|
|MCODESET|1|RESPONSE1|
|MCODESET|2|RESPONSE2|
|MCODESET|3|RESPONSE3|
|MCODESET|4|RESPONSE4|

This uses the widgit that outputs the HTML tags. I tried applying it to the row but it did not work though :( You might have to tag each individual element.