Change background colour of FilteringRow

[Sheraz Naseeb]

Hi Telerik Team,

Please advice if I can change the background colour of Filtering Row in RadGridView, if so then how can I do that. I just want to do that to make it stand out from other rows in the grid.

Many thanks,

Sheraz

[Richard Slade]

Hi, 

It's not obvious how to do this, but the easiest way I found was this: 

1: Create a private member to hold the GridViewFilteringRowInfo

Private m_FilteringRow As GridViewFilteringRowInfo

2: Handle the CreateRow event of the GridView

Private Sub RadGridView1_CreateRow(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewCreateRowEventArgs) Handles RadGridView1.CreateRow
    If TypeOf e.RowInfo Is GridViewFilteringRowInfo Then
        m_FilteringRow = e.RowInfo
    End If
End Sub

In your Form_Load event add this at the end

Me.RadGridView1.TableElement.GetRowElement(m_FilteringRow).BackColor = Color.Black

The reason for setting the rowinfo to the private member is that the RowElement is null in the CreateRow event when you need it. 

Hope that helps
Richard

[Sheraz Naseeb]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your reply but I had already found the solution for this my code is...

Private Sub RadGridView1_ViewCellFormatting(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.WinControls.UI.CellFormattingEventArgs) Handles RadGridView1.ViewCellFormatting

        If TypeOf e.CellElement Is Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridFilterCellElement Then
            DirectCast(e.CellElement.RowInfo, Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewFilteringRowInfo).Height = 28
            e.CellElement.DrawFill = True
            e.CellElement.NumberOfColors = 1
            e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Beige
            e.CellElement.Font = New Font("Verdana", 10)
        End If

    End Sub

I also tried your code but I guess the version I am working with does not support .TableElement.

Thanks...

[Richard Slade]

Hi, 

I think your solution is better and I can confirm it works under the latest release (2010 Q2 - Build 806) as well. 
Cheers
Richard

[Alexander]

Hello,

You can define the background color of the FilteringRow from the theme or in runtime.

You can edit the theme using Visual Style Builder (you can find more information about this tool here). To set the background color in runtime you can use the ViewCellFormatting event as in the Sheraz's solution. Additional information about the RadGridView CellFormatting events could be found in this help article.

I hope it helps.

Regards,
Alexander
the Telerik team