Background coloring for the column headers

Feature Ideas
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I think coloring the column headers is a great way to subconsciously associate a column, or a group of column next to each other, with a color.

This is a very simple method to help the user navigate within an extensive table, such as one with over 60 columns. Even an experienced user can have hard time finding their way in such a table with quick left-and-right scrolling.

The column headers do not wrap, so reading them is not an option. Since most of their text is already very long, reading them is not desirable in practice even if there is sufficient column width to fit a long title.

Since it’s only the column headers that will get colored, I believe there will be a minimal negative impact for the UI performance.

Thank you so much,

2

Hey @rt23 — thanks for sharing your idea! Do you have any references or examples of similar tools that use this approach? :slightly_smiling_face:

3

Smartsheet has a similar feature. It lets coloring of all cells in a particular column. It really helps the user read and enter data without ever reading the column titles.

However, coloring all of the cells in a column is not optimized for performance and responsiveness in the UI, as far as I know.

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We’ll check this out, thanks @rt23 :raised_hands:

5

Hello @rt23, I’ve discussed your idea with the team, and it turns out we actually have a similar issue in our backlog: Conditional cell coloring · Issue #2941 · baserow/baserow · GitHub. Would that work for your case?