# Datatable visualization row background color conditional formatting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datatable-visualization-row-background-color-conditional-formatting/166551>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datatable-visualization-row-background-color-conditional-formatting/166551 "2019-01-31T12:34:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![riteshun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ad7895/32.png) [@riteshun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/riteshun)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datatable-visualization-row-background-color-conditional-formatting/166551/1 "2019-01-31T12:34:16Z")

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Is there a way to achieve conditional formatting in a datatable visualization.. we would like to have row background red in case a column value is over certain percentage.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datatable-visualization-row-background-color-conditional-formatting/166551/2 "2019-01-31T20:56:34Z")

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You can't do this in the datatable. If you are viewing raw document values, you can use a field formatter to set a color based on matching a specific value, but if you're using aggregations, you'd need datatable cell formatting, which does not currently exist.

Alternatively, you could use a metric vis instead of a table and you can defined ranges for your data that control the background color of the metric. You can control the appearance in the options menu:

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/datatable-visualization-row-background-color-conditional-formatting/166551/3 "2019-02-28T20:56:34Z")

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