Higlighting currency fields in interactive report

Question

I have an interactive report where two cells need to be highlighted if the values in these two cells are not equal. Both cells have the currency mask (FML999G999G999G999G990D00) in the column attributes. I have modified the sql for the first column based on info in this forum. However when I use the span tag to conditionally highlight the cell, the format mask is apparently overriden by the span tag in the SQL statement. Is there a way to have both highlighting and a currency mask on the same cell?
SQL for report
SELECT  CASE
                 WHEN TO_NUMBER (v.committed) < pwd.obligatedamt
                 THEN '<span style="background-color:yellow;">' || TO_NUMBER (v.committed) || '</span>'
                 ELSE
                    TO_CHAR (v.committed)
      END committed, ...Thanks,
Kim

Answer 1

Figured it out. Here is the revised code. Instead of using the Number / Date Format field in the column definition (in APEX) and the span tag in the select statement, put all the formatting in the select statement and leave the Number / Date Format field blank in APEX.
SELECT  CASE
                 WHEN v.committed < pwd.obligatedamt
                 THEN
                       '<span style="background-color:yellow;">'
                    || TO_CHAR (v.committed, 'L999G999G999G999G990D00')
                    || '</span>'
                 ELSE
                    TO_CHAR (v.committed, 'L999G999G999G999G990D00')
                 END committed,  ....