Conditional formatting an html email body

Question

Hi,
I'm pulling some data out of a database and creating an email with an html body.  I'd like to highlight some of the rows in a colour if for example a particular column is flagged with a zero, I can call the column "expired".  I need it
highlighted in html because the users who will be receiving the emails need it as easy as possible....
 I don't know a lot of HTML but do know a little SQL and Powershell.  Here is my code
  #Send email Function    
function sendMail($messagebody) {
     Write-Host "Sending Email"
     #SMTP server name
     $smtpServer = "xxxxx"
     #Creating a Mail object
     $msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage
     #Creating SMTP server object
     $smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
     #Email structure
     $msg.From = "sdfsdfs@sdfsdfs"
     $msg.ReplyTo = "dfgfdgdf@dfgdfgd"
     $msg.To.Add("dfgdfg@dfgdfgdf")
     $msg.subject = "**:-)**"
     $msg.IsBodyHtml = $true
     $msg.body = $messagebody
     #Sending email
     $smtp.Send($msg)
$TableHeader = "e Services"          ##The title of the HTML page
$OutputFile = "C:\MyReport.htm"         ##The file location
##set HTML formatting
$a = @"
<style>
BODY{background-color:white;}
TABLE{border-width: 1px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: black;
  border-collapse: collapse;
TH{border-width: 1px;
  padding: 0px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: black;
  background-color:#C0C0C0
TD{border-width: 1px;
  padding: 0px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: black;
  background-color:white
</style>
$body = @"
<p style="font-size:25px;family:calibri;color:#ff9100">
$TableHeader
</p>
$connString = "Data Source=Localhost\SQLEXPRESS,1433;Initial Catalog=Logons;User Id=Matrix; Password=Q@v652500;"
$QueryText = "exec dbo.LancasterWayBuildingRelated"
$SqlConnection = new-object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection
$SqlConnection.ConnectionString = $connString
$SqlCommand = $SqlConnection.CreateCommand()
$SqlCommand.CommandText = "EXEC dbo.LancasterWayBuildingRelated"
$DataAdapter = new-object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter $SqlCommand
$dataset = new-object System.Data.Dataset
$dataAdapter.Fill($dataSet)
$connection.Close()
##Return all of the rows and pipe it into the ConvertTo-HTML cmdlet, and then pipe that into our output file
$messagebody = $dataSet.Tables | Select-Object -Expand Rows |
ConvertTo-HTML -head $a –body $body 
$messagebody | Out-File $OutputFile
#Write-Host $DataAdapter.Fill($dataset) ' records have been exported.'
#[string]$all = $dataset.tables[ 0 ] | Out-String
#Calling email function
if (!$messagebody) {} else
{sendMail $messagebody}
Alter De Ruine

Answer 1

Hi Sir,
I would like to check if you need further assistance .
Best Regards,
Elton JI
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