This property returns and sets the background colors of individual cells or ranges of cells.
object.CellBackColor [= color]
The CellBackColor property is unavailable at design time.
Changing this property affects the current cell or the current selection, depending on the setting of the FillStyle property.
Setting this property to 0 causes the Grid control to paint the cell using the standard background and foreground colors. If you want to set this property to black, set it to one instead of 0.
When working with color, be aware how color appears when viewed on a grayscale device. The following table shows how the 16-color palette translates to four grays.
Color |
Red |
Green |
Blue |
Gray conversion |
Black | 0 | 0 | 0 | Black |
White | 255 | 255 | 255 | White |
Dark gray | 128 | 128 | 128 | Dark gray |
Light gray | 192 | 192 | 192 | Light gray |
Dark red | 128 | 0 | 0 | Black |
Red | 255 | 0 | 0 | Dark gray |
Dark yellow | 128 | 128 | 0 | Dark gray |
Yellow | 255 | 255 | 0 | Light gray |
Dark green | 0 | 128 | 0 | Black |
Green | 0 | 255 | 0 | Dark gray |
Dark cyan | 0 | 128 | 128 | Dark gray |
Cyan | 0 | 255 | 255 | Light gray |
Dark blue | 0 | 0 | 128 | Black |
Blue | 0 | 0 | 255 | Dark gray |
Dark magenta | 128 | 0 | 128 | Dark gray |
Magenta | 255 | 0 | 255 | Light gray |