Hy, I have the same problem, to set the backcolor to the entire detail/detail cell(inside cell is a text element),using crosstab element .The problem is that the color codes to be used as backcolor are comming from a database and are changind often and so the conditional styles can't de used. I tried with sytle tag but is not working :( Do you have any idea ,to be implemented when the number of colors is big (there could be 20 colors or more to be used for each crosstab cell)? Regards, Cristina