CSS to color code every other line?

[Rogue]

Does anyone know of a way to systematically color code every other row in a table using a style sheet property? Reason I ask is that we have a page that pulls data off of another server into a table. I have to use style sheets to apply the desired effect because otherwise it uses default browser settings for text, etc. I want something that will color code every other row a different shade to make reading the data easier. Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

[RaoulDuke]

what are you using to format/pull your text from the database? php/asp/cold fusion....?

 

[rmeijer]

What you are using for serverside processing is important, but only in the details...

you'll want a loop and then some counter (such as 'i') to indicate which record number you are on...

then do something like this:

String sColor = "DEFAULT" ;
if ( i%2 != 0 )
sColor = "RED";

String sSSheet = "ROW-" + color ;

Your style sheet will have two styles defined, for example:
.ROW-DEFAULT { etc }
.ROW-RED { etc }

I am sure you can figure it out from there. Makes sense?

 

[Rogue]

See, the thing is, the data is pulled off of a CMS server (Call Management Sytem) and written as a basic black and white table using a proprietary tag that I insert into a template at the point where I want the data inserted. There's no way to format it prior to it being written to the web server and formatting it afterward would be a lot of work. The table is very, very basic in it's format...

<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

So what I've done is applied properties to the basic HTML tags for the other things I want to format (ie.- font size, color, etc). I want to find a way to use CSS and the <tr> tag (with no HTML properties applied) and loop through the data inserted by the server, after it's inserted. Can I do something like an IF/THEN loop in conjunction with a style sheet property for the TR tag?