# \[Feature Request\] Add column coloring

**URL:** https://community.nocodb.com/t/feature-request-add-column-coloring/2099
**Category:** Grid-View
**Created:** [October 3, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/feature-request-add-column-coloring/2099 "2025-10-03T09:41:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![joakim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@joakim](https://community.nocodb.com/u/joakim)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/feature-request-add-column-coloring/2099/1 "2025-10-03T09:41:42Z")

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I see that you recently added coloring options for rows in grid view. Is it possible to add functionality to add coloring on columns as well? Would be super useful

Thanks

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### Author: ![Navi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3be4f8/32.png) [@Navi](https://community.nocodb.com/u/Navi)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/feature-request-add-column-coloring/2099/2 "2025-10-03T09:44:53Z")

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Can you be more specific about your usecase. Did you intend to say cell level colouring ?

Because, row is an entity and colouring that makes sense. However, column is not.

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### Author: ![joakim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@joakim](https://community.nocodb.com/u/joakim)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 10:13am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/feature-request-add-column-coloring/2099/3 "2025-10-03T10:13:18Z")

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Sure. No, I meant column coloring. In my case, different business users will have different responsibilities to fill out the correct values in the different columns in the same grid view. So by having the option to color-code columns would make it easier to seperate different “type” of columns.

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### Author: ![Navi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3be4f8/32.png) [@Navi](https://community.nocodb.com/u/Navi)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/feature-request-add-column-coloring/2099/4 "2025-10-03T10:18:57Z")

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I have created a feature request here : please go ahead and leave a 👍 for voting it.

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### Author: ![joakim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@joakim](https://community.nocodb.com/u/joakim)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/feature-request-add-column-coloring/2099/5 "2025-10-03T10:25:53Z")

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Thank you, done 👍

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### Author: ![dstala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@dstala](https://community.nocodb.com/u/dstala)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2026, 5:00am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/feature-request-add-column-coloring/2099/6 "2026-04-13T05:00:02Z")

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Can use cell-colouring now to get this result.

> **[Cell colouring - Colouring records ☁](https://nocodb.com/docs/product-docs/table-operations/record-colouring#cell-colouring)**
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> When the colouring mode is set to Cell, the colour is applied only to the specific field you select. This is useful when you want to draw attention to a particular field value without colouring the entire row. | Learn how to colour records and...

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/nocodb/original/1X/cbb32f35c23736fa6a94099dc40b83fab074ebc4.png)
