Re: Alternating BG color for long lists

Neil Rossi wrote on 08 aug 2003 in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

Is there a way using CSS, without using client-side or server-side
scripting, to make list backgrounds alternate color with each
successive item in a dropdown list? Is there some other, better way
of displaying long dropdown lists so that the list items are visually
separated? TIA.

Without having to give all the <tr>'s an alternating classname,
javascript [yes, you specified "no script"] does such a nice job:

<table id="mytable" ....

<script>
i=0;
x=mytable.firstChild.childNodes
while(i< x.length) {
if (i % 2)
x(i).style.backgroundColor="#ccc"
else
x(i).style.backgroundColor="#aaa"
i++
}
</script>


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