How to highlight only unpublished nodes in views result
in your views add fields:


Node: Published, options "Label" empty, tick "Exclude from display",
"Output  format" choose "True/False"
Node: Title, option "Rewrite the output of this field" write &lt;span
class="[status]"&gt;[title]&lt;/span&gt;
Make css class ".false {color:red;}" for "unpublished" in your theme .css file


make 2 and 3 to your vbo fields, add "Node: Published", and rearrange to be first top field