What is the best way to style alternating rows in a table?

Question

Obviously, the actual style of the odd/even rows will be done via a CSS class, but what is the best way to \"attach\" the class to the rows? Is is better to put it in the ma

Answer 1

You can do this fairly easily with jQuery, like so:

$(function(){
    $('tr:even').addClass('alternateClass');
    $('tr:odd').addClass('mainClass');
});

You can qualify the selector a bit more if you just want to do this on one particular table, or do it on 'li' elements as well.

I think this is a bit cleaner and more readable client-side than it would be in some server-side environments,