The following jQuery script allows you to search for and replace the contents of a table cell with some other content. This can be used to dynamically format your table data.

It's quite useful for colour coding text. In the example below I turn all PENDING text red.

<script>

$("td").filter(

  function(){

    return $(this).text() === "PENDING";}).

    text("<span style='background-color:red'>PENDING</span>");

</script>

In order to use this script to need to load the jQuery library from your html page. Please see the jQuery documentation for details on how to do this.