Alternate row colors in static HTML table?

kilbey1

Is it possible to write row colors using PHP in a static HTML table? If so, how exactly do I go about this? I've done it with generated tables before.

cockney

well you can output a class with php ...

So if you want to alternate row colours you can have

td.class0 {blah}
td.class1 {blah}

in your style sheet

then output your table rows with php

<?php

$class = 0;

loop

{
echo '<tr><td class="class'.$class.'">text</td></tr>'."\n";
$class = abs($class - 1);
}

... if thats what you're after.

wreed

Hmm try this function...
Then use a FOR LOOP

Those are my variables in there....its a snippet of my code


// Displays alternate table row colors 
function row_color($i){ 
    $bg1 = "#dddddd"; // color one    

//    $bg1 = "#BABABA"; // color one    

    $bg2 = "#eeeeee"; // color two 

if ( $i%2 ) { 
    return $bg1; 
} else { 
    return $bg2; 
} 
} 

for( $i = 0; $i < $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $i++){ 
    echo "<TR>\n" 
        ."<TD class=verb10 bgcolor=".row_color($i)."><img src=../images/powerrankings/".$row["teamabbr"].".gif border=0 width=50 height=50></TD>\n" 
        ."<TD width=50 class=verb10 bgcolor=".row_color($i).">".$row["rank"]."<a class=verbred> (".$row["prank"].")</a>\n";
}

mcgruff

Define a couple of constants (BG_COLOR1 and BG_COLOR2) in a configuration section at the head of the file (easy to find and change later).

Just before the loop where you create the items, set $a = 0.

Inside the loop do this:

// alternating bgcolor
IF ($a % 2 == 0) {

$bgcolor = BGCOLOR_1;

} ELSE {

$bgcolor = BGCOLOR_2;

}

$a++;

.. and of course stick $bgcolor in the string where you declare the table cell / row / etc code.

Don't need a function - and you can even omit the constants if you want to be super-efficient.