thanks

well here it is, i have the the code to write the lines for the fields chosen in the index page from the first set of check boxes.

this basicaly produces

[HTML]<td><xsl:value-of select="county_UA"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="pop_code"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="favourite_instrument"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="bbb"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="id"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="fruit"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="prizes"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="fguk_code"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="fgeu_code"/></td[/HTML]

this displays all the fields data, perfect

now, i have another set of check boxes and radio buttons for the colour for the fields

[HTML] <fieldset>
<legend>Colours 1</legend>
<input type="radio" name="radiobutton1" value="chocolate" />chocolate
<input type="radio" name="radiobutton1" value="forestgreen" />forestgreen
<input type="radio" name="radiobutton1" value="turquoise" />turquoise
<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox11" value="county_UA" />county_UA
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox12" value="pop_code" />pop_code
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox13" value="favourite_instrument" />favourite_instrument
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox14" value="bbb" />bbb
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox15" value="id" />id
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox16" value="fruit" />fruit
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox17" value="prizes" />prizes
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox18" value="fguk_code" />fguk_code
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox19" value="fgeu_code" />fgeu_cod
</fieldset>[/HTML]

so if the user wants the fields or a particular field in a colout you can do so, how do i do this basicaly to any part of the code.

so in another words if the user wants to see these fields ID, FRUIT, PRIZES in the colour turquoise you could choose so, and all these values are stored in sessions.


is that possible?

hi

this is exactly the desired effect that i need,

basicaly The columns to display mechanism and the columns to colour mechanism are completely different.

You use the columns to display mechanism to choose what columns you want to display, that is it’s one and only purpose.

You then use the columns to colour mechanism to select which column you would like to colour, then the colour you want to make it.

here is the pic:



http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7974/sas6vn.jpg

Okay, I will start with ignoring most of what you have written, because I must admit, that it still confuses me a little ...

As I understood you, you just want to be able to give certain columns of a table a specified color.

So for example you could do something like the following form in order to select what color each column should have:

And then when creating the table, you could use the following function to dye the columns (just use this function my_td($i) instead of writing <td> for the beginning of each field):

So you would just write

in order to produce two cells of output.

... hope I could help!

hi

thanks for that ya something on those lines, i'll try and see how far i can get, is it possible for me to ask u on msn or just perfer the thread.
if so just private message me!
thanks for help once more

I prefer the thread. I am practically never online on MSN, ICQ, or whatever else. So it could take weeks in order to reach me there

And of course it is no problem, if I can I will help!

no worries at and many thanks a gain