property Item.BackColor as Color
Specifies the item's background color.

TypeDescription
Color A color expression that specifies the item's background color. The last 7 bits in the high significant byte of the color to indicates the identifier of the skin being used. Use the Add method to add new skins to the control. If you need to remove the skin appearance from a part of the control you need to reset the last 7 bits in the high significant byte of the color being applied to the background's part.
By default, the item's BackColor property is -1, which indicates that no background color is applied. Use the BackColor property to change the item's background color. The ForeColor property specifies the item's foreground color. The SelBackColor / SelForeColor property retrieves or sets a value that indicates the selection background / foreground color. You can use the <bgcolor> / <fgcolor> HTML tags in cell's Value property to display the text of the cell with different colors.