the reason I say that is because at no time do you use CSS to control the zebra stripes.

I would have thought a developer would understand the difference. HERE is how to do it using CSS ONLY!!

tr:nth-child(even){ background-color: #FFFFFF; }
tr:nth-child(odd){ background-color: #CCFFFF; }

This will require a modern browser, but if you’re handicapped with IE, you can use ie9.js from here: http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/source/browse/trunk/lib/IE9.js?r=35

to make IE work correctly and this also fixes up a lot of crap you normally have to deal with.

http://cica.ro/p/t9Iw4Rg

.striped tr:nth-of-type(2n+0)
{
background-color: #def;
}

(Add salt and pepper to taste)

Though for IE < 9 and FF < 3.5 you'll need the js solution still!

When I developed the table, I used the same method you show here for applying the zebra stripe, but had to use a little more complicated jQuery for highlighting. If you look at the source code of the external javascript, you can see what I did.

To get this to work on one table (or one set of tables) and not others, just give that table a class (“striped”, for example), then change your jQuery to read like this instead:

$(document).ready(function(){
	$(".striped tr:odd").addClass("odd");
});

Entertaining. :) I’m running a spam catcher on the admin side of things which catches 99% of the spam that comes through this site. The other 1% I delete manually every couple of days. Yours doesn’t count as spam, though, so it stays.