# Power Table whiting out text for no discernable reason?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-whiting-out-text-for-no-discernable-reason/32734 "2020-03-02T15:10:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-whiting-out-text-for-no-discernable-reason/32734/1 "2020-03-02T15:10:20Z")

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A odd aesthetic issue I have with a power table I use to let people select items off with a checkbox, occasionally the text columns text goes white and multipel rows will be affected, though I can’t discern any deterministic pattern as to which ones. Like this -

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/2/2c281b99291c0dde356eda0b727fba0028b4f016.png)

I selected the person above Matt Tevald, and then that row and the row above it both turned white.

My configure cell script is only a one liner  
`return {'background': 'white'}`

I don’t have any bindings on foreground color color or similar, and no other scripting that affects foreground color. Why is this happening/how can I fix it? Is there a way to manually make this table repaint after the selection, perhaps that would fix it? Anyone else experience this and find a fix?

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-whiting-out-text-for-no-discernable-reason/32734/2 "2020-03-02T15:26:00Z")

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What happens if you specify the foreground?

```auto
return {'foreground': 'black', 'background': 'white'}

```

As a personal preference, I’ll specify both foreground and background colors, whether I ultimately use it or not.

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-whiting-out-text-for-no-discernable-reason/32734/3 "2020-03-02T15:28:39Z")

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I can’t get it to happen again so that works as a fix, thanks. Curious why this even happened in the first place though,

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-whiting-out-text-for-no-discernable-reason/32734/4 "2020-03-02T15:36:44Z")

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There are a lot of events and other things happening under the hood. Probably with the highlight events, if selections are turned on.

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-table-whiting-out-text-for-no-discernable-reason/32734/5 "2020-03-02T15:57:16Z")

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Turning off row selection and reverting my configureCell script to my original also worked, so it was definitely a highlighting issue. Thanks.