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Copper Contributor

Dec 23, 2020

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SharePoint list Alternating column formatting

Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is possible to alternate the background color of colums using JSON formatting on a Sharepoint List view? I'm aware of the conditional formatting and sett...

Beau Cameron
Dec 23, 2020
Shinhidora Nope. If you have formatting you want applied to each column, you would need to add the formatter JSON to each column.

ganeshsanap

MVP

Dec 23, 2020

Shinhidora

I don't think it is possible to set background-color to alternate columns.

However, if you are looking for setting background color to alternate rows then you can do it like below:

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/view-formatting.schema.json",
  "additionalRowClass": "=if(@rowIndex%2==0,'ms-bgColor-themeLight','')"
}

Reference: Alternate Row Formatting based on Modulus

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