# Conditional Formatting
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Conditional formatting makes it easy to highlight certain values or make particular cells easy to identify. It changes the appearance of a cell based on a condition. You can use conditional formatting to highlight cells that contain values which meet a certain condition.
### Adding Conditional Formats
1. Open the **Home** tab of the toolbar.
2. Click **Conditional Formatting** in the toolbar.
3. Click **Add Conditional Formatting Rule.**
4. Click on the newly added rule to configure it:
1. Select the **Columns** to apply the conditional format within.
2. Select the filter condition **Where** the conditional format should apply.
3. Set the **Text Color** and **Background Color** to apply to the cells identified by this condition.
A conditional format being applied to the column X to highlight values over 7.
#### Adding Multiple Conditional Formats
Conditional formatting rules will be applied in-order, with later conditional formatting rules overwriting earlier ones. For example:
1. First conditional format sets cells >= 7 to have a red background color.
2. Second conditional format sets cells >= 8 to have a blue background color.
All cells equal to 7 will have a red background. All cells >= 8 will have a blue background color, as this rule is later, and so will overwrite the first conditional format.
#### Invalid Conditional Formatting Rules
Not all conditions can be applied to all columns. For example, if you are adding a conditional format to a number column, but you use the **string starts with** condition to select cells, this will error.
If the conditional formatting rule cannot be applied, it will display an error message prompting you to update the filter condition.
### The Generated Styling Code
To view the dataframe with conditional formats in your notebook, simply display the styling object generated by Mito:
The styling code generated by Mito, plus a line of code that displays the styled object.
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