odd/even table rows

[bill drescher]

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

[Ben Shimmin]

Re: odd/even table rows

bill drescher <nobody@Spamcop .net>:[color=blue]
> 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 !)[/color]

<URL:http://www.alistapart. com/articles/zebratables/>

In short, no.

b.

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[brucie]

Re: odd/even table rows

in post: <news:10flrhtsi hsnifb@corp.sup ernews.com>
bill drescher <nobody@Spamcop .net> said:
[color=blue]
> 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 ?[/color]

http://moreshit.usenetshit.info/alternate-tr-color-thingy.shit

[color=blue]
> (yes, it is for tabular data !)[/color]

thats what they all say

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b r u c i e

[bill drescher]

Re: odd/even table rows

brucie wrote:
[color=blue]
> in post: <news:10flrhtsi hsnifb@corp.sup ernews.com>
> bill drescher <nobody@Spamcop .net> said:
>
>[color=green]
>>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 ?[/color]
>
>
> http://moreshit.usenetshit.info/alte...or-thingy.shit[/color]

still too much work, and classes are more intuitive
[color=blue]
>
>[color=green]
>>(yes, it is for tabular data !)[/color]
>
>
> thats what they all say
>[/color]
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

[Brian]

Re: odd/even table rows

bill drescher wrote:
[color=blue]
> 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 ?[/color]

Not until CSS 3 is adopted. Hold your breath. ;-)

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[Stan Brown]

Re: odd/even table rows

"bill drescher" <nobody@Spamcop .net> wrote in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:[color=blue]
>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 ?[/color]

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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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/

[Stan Brown]

Re: odd/even table rows

"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown @fastmail.fm> wrote in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:[color=blue]
>"bill drescher" <nobody@Spamcop .net> wrote in
>comp.infosyste ms.www.authoring.stylesheets:[color=green]
>>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 ?[/color]
>
>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.[/color]

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/

[JayB]

Re: odd/even table rows


"bill drescher" <nobody@Spamcop .net> wrote in message
news:10fm5d2smd aahe9@corp.supe rnews.com...[color=blue]
> brucie wrote:
>[color=green]
> > in post: <news:10flrhtsi hsnifb@corp.sup ernews.com>
> > bill drescher <nobody@Spamcop .net> said:
> >
> >[color=darkred]
> >>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 ?[/color]
> >
> >
> > http://moreshit.usenetshit.info/alte...or-thingy.shit[/color]
>
> still too much work, and classes are more intuitive
>[color=green]
> >
> >[color=darkred]
> >>(yes, it is for tabular data !)[/color]
> >
> >
> > thats what they all say
> >[/color]
> columns are:
> Date Location results
>
> looks like tabular data to me, maybe even to you.[/color]

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

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JayB

[bill drescher]

Re: odd/even table rows

Stan Brown wrote:[color=blue]
> "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown @fastmail.fm> wrote in
> comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets:
>[color=green]
>>"bill drescher" <nobody@Spamcop .net> wrote in
>>comp.infosyst ems.www.authoring.stylesheets:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>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 ?[/color]
>>
>>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.[/color]
>
>
> 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.)
>[/color]

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