What David said. You might also try running your source through the w3
validator.
I will also add that I tried going with :nth-child for zebra stripes myself
once. Then I realized it didn't work so well when using multiple tbodys, header
cells with rowspan, etc. I went back to using .even .odd classes on the tr.
It's the only way to be sure.
Ramsey
On Feb 20, 2013, at 7:28 AM, David LeBer wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Css selectors work on the completed dom as understood by browser, it knows
> nothing about how the page is being created server-side and doesn't care.
>
> It sounds like your table is malformed, try carefully inspecting the rendered
> dom in Safari or Firefox (i.e: "Inspect Element"). If I had to, I'd guess
> that there is a tag missing somewhere that the browser is filling in making
> each tr nested in it's own table.
>
> D
>
> --
> David LeBer
> Codeferous Software
>
> On 2013-02-20, at 12:55 AM, Tim Worman <li...@thetimmy.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a single component that acts as a table row. The outer-most object in
>> the component is a AUC where the elementName is "tr". I also have css that
>> is supposed to style each of these rows sth like:
>>
>> .resultsTable tbody tr:nth-child(odd) td{background-color:#EEEEEE;}
>>
>> The entire enclosing page is rendered fine including the table and all rows
>> are rendered correctly as tr's. The problem is the rows aren't styled
>> correctly per the css. It appears every single row considers itself "odd."
>> So every row has the background color as defined in the css.
>>
>> I have other components where the entire table is similarly built completely
>> dynamically but the TR's are not a separate component. In those cases the
>> css is properly applied to each TR.
>>
>> I know I could return separate css classes in code for even and odd indexes
>> in my TR component, but I want to use the existing css so that any future
>> css changes are inherited by all appropriate components.
>>
>> Tim
>> UCLA GSE&IS
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