# Change text color on list view
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [September 2, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654 "2018-09-02T19:25:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Claus\_Holbech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Claus_Holbech)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/1 "2018-09-02T19:25:57Z")
How can I change the color of the text items in a list view?.
Claus
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### Author:  [@cttricks](https://community.thunkable.com/u/cttricks)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/2 "2018-09-03T08:02:40Z")
**Follow these Steps :**
- Go to the Properties Section of the List\_View
- There the bottom 3rd option is of text Color ( set to Default )
- Here you can change the color of the text items to your desired one.
Hope this will help you out !! 🤩
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### Author:  [@simsonpeter](https://community.thunkable.com/u/simsonpeter)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/3 "2018-09-03T08:52:03Z")
Hi @cttricks here we talk about cross platform not classic.
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### Author:  [@11161](https://community.thunkable.com/u/11161)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 10:07am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/4 "2018-09-04T10:07:59Z")
You mean the same color to the every items or different colors to each items?
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### Author:  [@Claus\_Holbech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Claus_Holbech)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/5 "2018-09-04T11:02:09Z")
Same color for all items is enough for me at he moment.
Claus
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### Author:  [@11161](https://community.thunkable.com/u/11161)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 8:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/6 "2018-09-05T08:49:45Z")
Sadly, changing the items’ color isn’t available yet…😩
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### Author:  [@brittanybfws](https://community.thunkable.com/u/brittanybfws)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/7 "2019-02-05T17:16:23Z")
I know this conversation is old but it was the first search result when I was searching for the answer.
How I went around this is:
1. you can change the background color of the list viewer or…
2. you can put the list viewer in a row and change the background color of that.
I have a dark grey screen background with maroon graphics. I already needed mine in a row so I changed that background color for consistency with the items next to it. I set the background color to black 50% transparent. (White looked too muted but black had a nice contrast.)
I hope this helps in the mean time. (Unless you already can & I overlooked it)
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### Author:  [@Julia\_Milan](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Julia_Milan)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/8 "2019-06-14T14:19:25Z")
So there’s no way of changing the color of the text items, right?
You can only change the list view background color… ☹
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/9 "2019-06-14T15:37:24Z")
hi @Julia_Milan, that’s correct.
Unfortunately there is no way to style individual strings of text right now.
We are working on an update to this component though which will open up a lot of new options.
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### Author:  [@Joey](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Joey)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/10 "2019-06-19T05:56:47Z")
That would be great.
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### Author:  [@TheGenius](https://community.thunkable.com/u/TheGenius)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/11 "2020-04-16T07:48:00Z")
No update to Text Properties of list view yet. Sad.
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### Author:  [@thottiyilabhilashhd7](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thottiyilabhilashhd7)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/12 "2020-08-01T06:46:00Z")
This articles helpful for me
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### Author:  [@thottiyilabhilashhd7](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thottiyilabhilashhd7)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/13 "2020-08-01T06:48:38Z")
Still no have solution to change color of list items?
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/14 "2020-08-01T14:04:58Z")
Have you considered creating a custom list CustomAnyListViewer? An example can be viewed on the scrCustomListViewer screen in the project [https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5d70f93f8a62b4079eedaff2/project/properties/designer/](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5d70f93f8a62b4079eedaff2/project/properties/designer/)
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### Author:  [@j44](https://community.thunkable.com/u/j44)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/15 "2020-09-23T03:48:44Z")
I downloaded this thing 5 minutes ago, the first thing I did was creating e a data list view , second thing was going to be :changing the text color!!! and Boom!!! roadblock on the most basic and simple functionality. Moreover, this is a 2 years old conversation and this very essential functionality has not been addressed, is this a joke??? is Thunkable still being developed?
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### Author:  [@DuMonster](https://community.thunkable.com/u/DuMonster)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/16 "2020-09-23T05:51:51Z")
Something newly developed by the Thunkable team is this -
[https://docs.thunkable.com/custom-data-viewer-layout](https://docs.thunkable.com/custom-data-viewer-layout)
This is an example of the control you can have over your data viewer lists (i.e. _text color, background color, button color, button background images, and borders_ are things I used here)
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### Author:  [@augustopaguaga010y](https://community.thunkable.com/u/augustopaguaga010y)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/17 "2021-04-11T00:25:04Z")
hi, could you explain this? I have a listview that gets response from firebase, so I couldn’t use a list data viewer … I need to change the background color of the elements instead of white or change the text color. Still no solution to this?
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/change-text-color-on-list-view/44654/18 "2024-11-08T11:38:58Z")