Mastering QGIS - Second Edition

Conditional formatting for attribute table cells

Looking at attribute tables can often be tedious work, especially when you are trying to look for certain values, because all of the cells in the attribute table are formatted the same: black text on a light background. QGIS has a fantastic feature that allows cells to have a different format based on expressions that you set. This is called conditional formatting. In this section, we will use conditional formatting to make it easier to identify which schools are public and private, which schools are elementary schools, and which schools do not have a site identification number assigned. We will use the schools.shp sample data for this section:

1. Add schools.shp to QGIS Desktop and open its attribute ...