# Kibana4: Color formatter for Strings?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-color-formatter-for-strings/58217>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 17, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-color-formatter-for-strings/58217 "2016-08-17T07:38:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MarcelHallmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MarcelHallmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcelHallmann)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-color-formatter-for-strings/58217/1 "2016-08-17T07:38:11Z")

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Hi all,

acording to [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/4cce8e878fe0f2aa7a59ea2000d9bdb018384297/docs/color-formatter.asciidoc](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/4cce8e878fe0f2aa7a59ea2000d9bdb018384297/docs/color-formatter.asciidoc) the color formatter only works for numbers, but not for strings.

When will the feature be implemented to color string fields?

Regards

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-color-formatter-for-strings/58217/2 "2016-08-17T15:36:09Z")

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There's an open ticket for this on our Github repo which you can track, but no one has picked it up so far so there's no target release date. Community contributions are always welcome! [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6537](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6537)

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**Author:** ![MarcelHallmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MarcelHallmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcelHallmann)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-color-formatter-for-strings/58217/3 "2016-10-08T19:49:41Z")

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I think I found a solution for this problem and created a pull request:

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/8597>

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana4-color-formatter-for-strings/58217/4 "2017-07-06T13:37:10Z")

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