# Kibana data table text color formatting based on field value

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-text-color-formatting-based-on-field-value/208240>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-text-color-formatting-based-on-field-value/208240 "2019-11-18T01:13:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Manjula\_Piyumal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/manjula_piyumal/32/57068_2.png) [@Manjula\_Piyumal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Manjula_Piyumal)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-text-color-formatting-based-on-field-value/208240/2 "2019-11-18T01:45:55Z")

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I was able to achieve this using fileld formatting as explaines in below link

> [@How To change text or numbers color conditionally in Kibana Data Table](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-text-or-numbers-color-conditionally-in-kibana-data-table/81468/3):
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> Hi Joe. I was looking for the same thing that rrr123 was looking for. Isn't the following setting supposed to do that? visualization:colorMapping (Default: {"Count":"#6eadc1"}) Maps values to specified colors within visualizations I was never able to get it to work though!!! Don

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