Changing Item colors on SharePoint calendar

Today we deployed a new calendar on our Intranet site that would display all employees birthdays and anniversaries. This would be automatically update once a month via a scheduled task to add any new employees or remove those that were terminated or retired.



We launched the new calendar and the first request we received was to color-code the anniversaries so that they stood out from the birthdays (at a company with almost 300 employees you can envision how many entries could be on the calendar).



I started doing some searching and came across this post on EndUserSharepoint and it was exactly what I was looking for. We implmented the process and had a couple of issues that Firefox was not rendering the divs but instead was writing out the tags, so we had to move to the Jquery to properly render it in both IE and Firefox.