- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:24:57 +0200
- To: Ming Teo <ming@staff.highway1.com.au>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Ming Teo wrote:
> I had an idea for something like this... from what I see in the CSS3
> working draft, there's |:nth-child| and :nth-child-of-type etc, but how
> would one, say cover odds and evens?
>
> A lot of people, esp. in tabular data, want to have every second row
> coloured a different way. The way we do it is assigning a class to every
> second row. Or using javascript/some other scripting method to do it?
>
> What about an |:odd-child|, |:odd-child-of-type|, |:even-child|, and
> |:even-child-of-type|?
>
> Wouldn't those be awesome pseudo-selectors?
Excerpt from section 6.6.5 of Selectors [1]:
In addition to this, :nth-child() can take 'odd' and 'even' as
arguments instead. 'odd' has the same signification as 2n+1, and
'even' has the same signification as 2n.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-selectors-20051215/#nth-child-pseudo
</Daniel>
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