Change font color in reports depending on condition

Question

I have an application that generates a number of new records at
the click of a button, which the user can then modify through
several report-form links. My users have requested that the data
appear in one color in the reports if they have not yet updated
the records, and that they change color, permanently, when
updated. I'm not sure how to accomplish this. I do well with
PLSQL, but I think this is probably a Javascript issue(?) - or
is it possible to specify font color of a report when you call a
URL?
Any ideas anyone?

Answer 1

Thank you, both Michaels. I was excited. I was sure this would
work, so I added the updated_by fields to all my reports (they
should be useful anyway). I worked on a couple of other issues
related to this, and returnred this morning to add the HTML font
tags to my report queries. I CAN'T MAKE IT WORK! I've attached
my code, and error message. Any thoughts on what I'm doing
wrong? Thanks.
(Note: The query works fine without the HTML tags.)
My code:
select '<font color=red>'||activity.act_text||'</font>' act_text,
from Activity, survey, temp
where activity.survey_id = survey.survey_id and
survey.survey_id = temp.survey
Error message:
Unable to describe SQL statement. Please correct it (WWV-13010)
Invalid SQL statement: SELECT '<FONT
COLOR=RED>'||ACTIVITY.ACT_TEXT||'</FONT>' ACT_TEXT, FROM
ACTIVITY, SURVEY, TEMP WHERE ACTIVITY.SURVEY_ID =
SURVEY.SURVEY_ID AND SURVEY.SURVEY_ID = TEMP.SURVEY (WWV-13005)
ORA-01001: invalid cursor (WWV-11230)
ORA-00936: missing expression (WWV-11230)
Failed to parse as MCHBGA - SELECT '<FONT
COLOR=RED>'||ACTIVITY.ACT_TEXT||'</FONT>' ACT_TEXT, FROM
ACTIVITY, SURVEY, TEMP WHERE ACTIVITY.SURVEY_ID =
SURVEY.SURVEY_ID AND SURVEY.SURVEY_ID = TEMP.SURVEY (WWV-08300)
I appreciate your help. I'm tearing my hair out.
Karli