td bgcolor based on variable

Hello, I am fairly new at ASP.Net and I am using 2.0. I am populating a table from a SQL query. If the field is blank/null, I would like to color the background yellow in the. How do I test for the variable and make this happen? Thanks for your help. Jim

This should help

Custom Formatting Based Upon Data

http://www.asp.net/learn/dataaccess/tutorial11vb.aspx?tabid=63

Create a databound envent handler and make the corresponding format according to the data you get. Yeah, the above link a great one and should solve your problem. take a deep look at it. thanks