# Conditional formatting for strings

**URL:** <https://discuss.google.dev/t/conditional-formatting-for-strings/329085>\
**Category:** Looker\
**Tags:** visualizations\
**Created:** [February 9, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.google.dev/t/conditional-formatting-for-strings/329085 "2026-02-09T15:43:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Collin\_Jones](https://d3byx8b92xw3lq.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.google.dev/collin_jones/32/190374_2.png) [@Collin\_Jones](https://discuss.google.dev/u/Collin_Jones)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.google.dev/t/conditional-formatting-for-strings/329085/1 "2026-02-09T15:43:03Z")

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Per the latest release notes, I should be able to apply conditional formatting rules to string dimensions, but I’m still only able to do so for numerical dimensions. I would expect that leaving “apply to” as “select fields” would allow me to type to select a string dimension from the table, but it does not appear to be possible on Looker 26.0.28.

`Looker now supports conditional formatting rules for string types in single value and table visualizations.`

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**Author:** ![sam8](https://d3byx8b92xw3lq.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.google.dev/sam8/32/21646_2.png) [@sam8](https://discuss.google.dev/u/sam8)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.google.dev/t/conditional-formatting-for-strings/329085/2 "2026-02-27T20:27:35Z")

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Good catch. That was a mistake - that feature is not actually ready for production, so it ended up not going out. I’ll make sure the release notes get updated to reflect that.