How to color a "cell"?

[Alex Tweedly]

On 23/06/2022 19:28, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>
> Thanks. I could get away with setting the backgroundColor of the whole 
> line, but that does the same as setting the backgroundColor of a 
> "cell": it draws the color only beneath the portion of the line that 
> contains text, leaving the rest blank.
>
Hmmmm - is there a non-visible character that would count as text ?

then you could replace all spaces by it, and adjust back later.

Alex