GUI Table Dropdown List with Entries in Different Colors via HTML

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Cindy Wang
Cindy Wang on 26 Aug 2014
Commented: Yannis Papakonstantinou on 13 Feb 2017
I am trying to have a dropdown list for each entry in a specific column of my uitable to feature a list of choices with different color fonts.
set(handles.dataTable_old,'ColumnFormat',{[],[],[],[],... {colorEntry('entry1','green'),colorEntry('entry2','red'),colorEntry('entry3','blue')},... [],[]});
where colorEntry is a function I wrote that outputs a string of HTML code with the entry in colored font:
function [colorHTML] = colorEntry(entry, color)
choices = {'red','green','blue','yellow','purple'};
codes = {'#FF0000','#008000','#1E90FF','#FF8C00','#FF00FF'};
indTrue = find(strcmp(color,choices));
colorCode = codes{indTrue};
% format into HTML code
htmlCode = '<html><span style="color: %s; font-weight: bold;">%s</span></html>';
colorHTML = sprintf(htmlCode,colorCode,entry);
end
The dropdown list works to the point of showing the selections in color:
However as soon as I make a selection, the original htmlCode shows up instead:
Is there any workaround to this issue? Thanks in advance.

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