title: How to change the field background color in Crystal Reports using HTML?
body: <p>I have a cross-tab in the report. I need to change background color of the summary field based on the database field HEX value. For this I'm interpreting field as HTML. So I created the formula fields and trying to use HTML tags to format it. I can change the font color OK, like this:</p>
  
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  <p>But I cannot figure out how to change the background color. I have a database field for this - {Report_SELECT_TagLayouts.BackgroundColorHex}, but even if I just use regular HEX values it doesn't work. I've tried different tags - div, span etc. - no luck.</p>
  
  <p>I understand that Crystal reports support only limited number of HTML tags, but whatever I try is not working. Font color is fine.</p>
  
  <p>I would appreciate your suggestions.</p>