Thank you all for your helpful suggestions.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 1, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Michael Geary wrote:
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> I wouldn't use either version.
>
> Instead, I would change your CSS from:
>
> tr.rowodd { background-color: #FFF; }
> tr.roweven { background-color: #F2F2F2; }
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> to:
>
> tr { background-color: #FFF; }
> tr.roweven { background-color: #F2F2F2; }
>
>
> and then use just one line of jQuery code:
>
> $('#foobar tr:visible:odd').addClass('roweven');
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> Now you're doing only half the work and letting the CSS cacading rules take
> care of the rest.
>
>
> And if you need to support IE6, you might have trouble applying a
> background-color to a <tr> (I seem to recall having that problem in the
> past). If you do, you could do this instead:
>
> tr td { background-color: #FFF; }
> tr.roweven td { background-color: #F2F2F2; }
>
>
> --Karl
>
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