# Change color of specific bar in a bar plot
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-color-of-specific-bar-in-a-bar-plot/67459
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** visualization, makie
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-color-of-specific-bar-in-a-bar-plot/67459 "2021-08-31T22:13:38Z")
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### Author:  [@vtomar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vtomar)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-color-of-specific-bar-in-a-bar-plot/67459/1 "2021-08-31T22:13:38Z")
Below is some sample code using Makie that generates horizontal bar plots in blue color. I want to color one of the bars to be with a different color. How would I do that? The bar that needs to be colored: The y axis value of it is stored in the variable `colorBar_YaxisValue`
```julia
using CairoMakie
colorBar_YaxisValue = 10
f = Figure(resolution = (1000, 800))
ax = Axis(f[1, 1], title = "test", ylabel = "Prices")
barplot!(ax, 1:20, 101:120, color = :blue, direction = :x)
#lines!(ax, fill(10, 20), fill(0, 20), color = :red)
display(f)
```
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-color-of-specific-bar-in-a-bar-plot/67459/2 "2021-08-31T22:32:24Z")
One way would be `ifelse`:
```julia
colorBar_YaxisValue = 10
f = Figure(resolution = (1000, 800))
ax = Axis(f[1, 1], title = "test", ylabel = "Prices")
barplot!(ax, 1:20, 101:120,
color = ifelse.(1:20 .== colorBar_YaxisValue, :red, :blue),
direction = :x)
f
```
