Alternating Cell Colors

[Anon]

I am pulling user comments out of a mysql database and I want to make each cell alternate 2 different colors. Like cell 1 = grey, cell 2= green,cell 3 = grey (and so on). How might I achieve this?

Thanks in advance,
-Frank

[chowdary]

Hi Frank,
Do you want display "Cells" in alternate colors or "Rows" in alternate colors.
If you want to display "Cells"
i don't think you need some help 'cas you might be writing all "Cells"(<TD></TD>) you can simply specify the color.
If you want to display "Rows" then
in your while loop(in getting data use this)

$row_count++;
if($row_count%2==0){$color="grey";}
else{$color="green";}

Now set the BGCOLOR attribute of table cell to $color i.e <TD BGCOLOR=\"$color\">

[Anon]

u should get the line number (first record--line one, second -- line two and so on) and then verify if it is an odd or even number. after that, it's simple
if odd...gray
if even....green