[RESOLVED] conditional field color

Question

this is probably has a very simple answer. In a af:table with af:inputText's in them I am trying to get the table to render where the cells of one of the columns in the table have a background color of yellow if the field says "Yellow" as the inputText's value and red if "Red" value.
I went into the backing bean and tried to alter the set or get for the input texts to programmatically change the inlineStyle of the inputText's attribute. But that did not work because at the time the set and get are called in rendering it appears that the backing bean attributes are null.
I will try again because some of my code went away when JDev automatically redid my backing bean code, but I am beginning to think I may have to do this with Javascript.
Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.
Message was edited by:
Michael A Fons

Answer 1

to clarify here is some bean code:
public void setAlertTypeInput(CoreInputText alertTypeInput) {
this.alertTypeInput = alertTypeInput;
if (this.alertTypeInput != null) {
if (this.alertTypeInput.getValue() != null){
Object obj = this.alertTypeInput.getValue();
if (obj != null) {
if (obj.toString().equals("Yellow")){
this.alertTypeInput.setInlineStyle("background-color:yellow;");
The second if evaluates to false because at the time the set occurs the value is not set.
I know you can do things as invokeActions to fire as a page is opening. Maybe there is a way to access the backing bean code at that point? I would think in the prepareRender phase would be the right timing. Maybe there is a section in the developer's guide which illustrates how to access the backing bean attributes in an invokeAction