odd/even table rows

I have a long table and I want to have the alternating rows slightly
different colors for clarity.

Is there any way to avoid using a class designation in each tr ?

(yes, it is for tabular data !)
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Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com

bill drescher <nobody (AT) Spamcop (DOT) net>:

I have a long table and I want to have the alternating rows slightly
different colors for clarity.

Is there any way to avoid using a class designation in each tr ?

(yes, it is for tabular data !)

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In short, no.

b.

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brucie wrote:

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bill drescher <nobody (AT) Spamcop (DOT) net> said:


I have a long table and I want to have the alternating rows slightly
different colors for clarity. Is there any way to avoid using a
class designation in each tr ?


http://moreshit.usenetshit.info/alte...or-thingy.shit

still too much work, and classes are more intuitive

(yes, it is for tabular data !)


thats what they all say

columns are:

Date Location results

looks like tabular data to me, maybe even to you.


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Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com

"bill drescher" <nobody (AT) Spamcop (DOT) net> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

I have a long table and I want to have the alternating rows slightly
different colors for clarity.

Is there any way to avoid using a class designation in each tr ?

You don't have to class _every_ tr, but you do have to class either
each even row or each odd row. There's no way out there that works
in IE.

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CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
2.1 changes: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown (AT) fastmail (DOT) fm> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

"bill drescher" <nobody (AT) Spamcop (DOT) net> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:
I have a long table and I want to have the alternating rows slightly
different colors for clarity.

Is there any way to avoid using a class designation in each tr ?

You don't have to class _every_ tr, but you do have to class either
each even row or each odd row. There's no way out there that works
in IE.

Sorry -- that last sentence makes no sense. What I meant to say was
that no way out there will work with IE, _other_ than classing each
even row or classing each odd row. For instance, if you class each
even row with <tr class="even">, your CSS would be:

table tr td { /* odd row stuff */ }

table tr.even td { /* even row stuff */ }

(As others have posted, the real solution is CSS3, but hardly any
browsers support it. Since IE doesn't, and IE users dominate the
market, it hardly matters what other browsers -- if any -- support
CSS3.)

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
2.1 changes: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

"bill drescher" <nobody (AT) Spamcop (DOT) net> wrote

brucie wrote:

in post: <news:10flrhtsihsnifb (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com
bill drescher <nobody (AT) Spamcop (DOT) net> said:


I have a long table and I want to have the alternating rows slightly
different colors for clarity. Is there any way to avoid using a
class designation in each tr ?


http://moreshit.usenetshit.info/alte...or-thingy.shit

still too much work, and classes are more intuitive



(yes, it is for tabular data !)


thats what they all say

columns are:
Date Location results

looks like tabular data to me, maybe even to you.

Brucie's reply looks like sarcasm to me. Maybe not to you.

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JayB

Stan Brown wrote:

"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown (AT) fastmail (DOT) fm> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

"bill drescher" <nobody (AT) Spamcop (DOT) net> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

I have a long table and I want to have the alternating rows slightly
different colors for clarity.

Is there any way to avoid using a class designation in each tr ?

You don't have to class _every_ tr, but you do have to class either
each even row or each odd row. There's no way out there that works
in IE.


Sorry -- that last sentence makes no sense. What I meant to say was
that no way out there will work with IE, _other_ than classing each
even row or classing each odd row. For instance, if you class each
even row with <tr class="even">, your CSS would be:

table tr td { /* odd row stuff */ }

table tr.even td { /* even row stuff */ }

(As others have posted, the real solution is CSS3, but hardly any
browsers support it. Since IE doesn't, and IE users dominate the
market, it hardly matters what other browsers -- if any -- support
CSS3.)

Thanks, that cut the work in half and is educational to boot.
Thank goodness for global find and replace as that makes the rest of the
job easy. (not a css construct, just HTML-Kit)

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Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com