Colour-coding custom fields?

[idea15]

Hello there,

I'm developing a site for a client who are keen on having a set of custom fields colour-coded to match the system they use in their office. If you can picture the little rainbow coloured stickers on the side of file folders in a doctor's office, that's the general idea. If I tick a box for X disease they want that disease's colour to appear somewhere on the database record.

What's the best way to do this?

[Hershel]

I would use an "extra" template file as per http://book.civicrm.org/developer/current/techniques/templates/

[idea15]

I ended up doing this with css and jquery:

http://idea15.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/how-to-colour-code-data-inputs-in-the-wordpress-admin-interface/

[Donald Lobo]

thx for posting such a detailed blog post.definitely will help other folks down the road

lobo