It would be useful if we could color coordinate the different tables’ names in the data editor. This would help see at a glance what tables are related to each other etc. I use a lot of tables as sub-tables to main ones for miscellaneous reasons so this would help with organizing my data table. I’ve been working around this missing feature by adding a color emoticons before the table name to help it stand out (
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Example: Table A has three other tables that are related to it, A.1, A.2, and A.3. I would want to edit the table name color to be Red and the three sub tables I would want to color Light Red. This would help easily distinguish not only that they are related to each other, but which one is the “parent” table.
May not be the most useful thing to everybody, but it is a tiny and neat quality of life feature that could be made.
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I think I like your own solution 
Don’t hesitate to give a vote to your own feature request.
Nice idea and help.
Would you mind sharing some screenshots of your idea to see how it looks?
Thanks!
Certainly. Here is an example of how I’ve been using the emoticons to coordinate a new build for the school district I work for. This is only the beginning stages of this site/app and it will end up having a couple dozen tables by the time it’s done, but you get the idea of how it can help organize at a glance. I typically use the color squares as the parent table and then the color circles as the child tables.
My feature suggestion would make it where we could either change the font color of the table name or maybe highlight the background of the table name or something along those lines. Just something local to keep me (in my case) from doing the process of Windows Key + “.” → Tab Over a few times → Scroll to find the emoticon color I desire, and then repeat every few minutes it seems like 
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You don’t do it that often. You do it once when you rename the table 
I guess not so much after the project is “done” (are they ever truly done?), but during the build process it definitely happens a lot for me. My work never likes simple, so I end up making 30+ screens and close to as many data tables by the time it’s all said and done. The employee app I made for the school has so many that it looks like a rainbow spewed all over the nav bars lol.
Side note, if this ever does become a thing, it also should be available for editing the colors of the screen names on the layout editor. I do the same trick with the emoticons there.
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You can use custom CSS tables on that topic. This will color table.
aka html table dd , dh colors in CSS class=“table colors”.
this should work quite well.
