# Perspective table column background color not working

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-column-background-color-not-working/41761>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 23, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-column-background-color-not-working/41761 "2020-12-23T17:46:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![chandler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@chandler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chandler)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-column-background-color-not-working/41761/1 "2020-12-23T17:46:15Z")

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Hi,  
I am trying to change the color of my columns in a table using the style property of each column configuration object, but when I add a background color nothing changes. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![wking](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wking/32/21823_2.png) [@wking](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wking)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-column-background-color-not-working/41761/2 "2020-12-23T17:55:45Z")

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Did you try style.fill?

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**Author:** ![chandler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@chandler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chandler)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-column-background-color-not-working/41761/3 "2020-12-23T18:00:16Z")

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I just did and got the same result. No change to the background color.

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**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-column-background-color-not-working/41761/4 "2020-12-23T19:26:39Z")

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Please see [[Bug-16897]Perspective column config style settings not applied](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-16897-perspective-column-config-style-settings-not-applied/33694/4)