Power BI conditional formatting highlight specific text in each row for table visual

[AzarShaik-8386]

Hi Power BI Community,

I have a table visual in Power BI where one of the columns contains text data. I would like to highlight specific text in different rows, where the text to be highlighted changes per row. For example:

• In Row 1, I want to highlight the word "urgent."
• In Row 2, I want to highlight the word "critical."
• In Row 3, I want to highlight the word "info," and so on.

I understand that Power BI’s native conditional formatting allows for entire cells or rows to be highlighted, but I am looking for a way to apply different text-based rules to highlight specific values in different rows of the table visual. Is there a method or workaround that would allow me to achieve this level of granularity?

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• I’ve created a DAX measure using SWITCH(TRUE()) to check for specific text values in each row and apply conditional formatting based on those values.
• However, this ends up highlighting the entire row or cell instead of just the specific text.

Is there a way to highlight only the relevant text within a cell or apply cell-level conditional formatting differently per row?

Thanks for any guidance or suggestions!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @AzarShaik-8386 ,

I create a simple table as you mentioned.

Then I create a calculated column and here is the DAX code.

HighlightedText = 
SWITCH(
    TRUE(),
    'Table'[RowID] = 1, SUBSTITUTE('Table'[TextColumn], "urgent", "<span style='background-color:yellow'>urgent</span>"),
    'Table'[RowID] = 2, SUBSTITUTE('Table'[TextColumn], "critical", "<span style='background-color:red'>critical</span>"),
    'Table'[RowID] = 3, SUBSTITUTE('Table'[TextColumn], "info", "<span style='background-color:green'>info</span>"),
    'Table'[TextColumn]
)

So I think you can use the visual named HTML Content.

Best Regards

Yilong Zhou

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[lbendlin]

Use SVG to achieve that.