Comments on: Alternate Background Colours

By: Wizely

Wizely — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:53:30 +0000

Like Eris I’ve been getting my hands mucky in a bit of Javascript here and there – sure the libraries are powerful and easy but I always like to know how things work. So thanks for going through these ‘simple’ walkthroughs – they are very clear and do help… I love peering into your drawers!

By: ElanMan

ElanMan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:07:03 +0000

Thanks for the comments
@Scott Haha! The frameworks like jquery certainly do make this kind of thing a doddle but if you’re just after a couple of quick functions, they aren’t really worth it imo.

@Eris Thanks for the nice words! I’m sure it won’t take you long to grok javascript. ‘Simply Javascript’ by Sitepoint is a good read

By: ErisDS

ErisDS — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:32:46 +0000

I’ve seen this done in other ways but it’s nice to see an unobtrusive, progressive enhancement style version. I’m doing my best to learn javascript atm & this kind of “quick trick snippet” is really quite inspiring, thanks!

By: Scott S

Scott S — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:14:45 +0000

Hmmmm… I wonder where you got the idea for this…

For those of your visitors using jQuery, it can be done using the built in “addClass” like so:

$(document).ready(function() { $(".zebra tr:even").addClass("alt"); });

Once again, a nice article Consider it dugg!