HTML CSS Exercise: Zebra table

Last update on March 04 2024 06:50:51 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML><!-- Specifies the document type and version of HTML -->
<html lang="en"><!-- Begins the HTML document and sets the language to English -->
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8><!-- Sets the character encoding to UTF-8 -->
<title>HTML CSS exercise - CSS3 Zebra Striping a Table</title><!-- Sets the title of the webpage -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Begins CSS styling */
table { /* Styles for the table element */
border:1px solid silver; /* Sets a border for the table */
}
th { /* Styles for table header cells */
background-color: #ccc; /* Sets the background color of table header cells */
}
tbody tr:nth-child(even) { /* Selects even rows in the table body */
background-color: #abe113; /* Sets the background color for even rows */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table><!-- Begins a table -->
<tr><th>Id</th><th>Name</th><th>Major</th></tr><!-- Table header row -->
<tr><td>1001</td><td>Gopl Murthy</td><td>Physics</td></tr><!-- Table data rows -->
<tr><td>1002</td><td>Joy Sen</td><td>Economics</td></tr>
<tr><td>1003</td><td>Chandu Yadav</td><td>Chemistry</td></tr>
<tr><td>1004</td><td>Shalini Gupta</td><td>Zoology</td></tr>
<tr><td>1004</td><td>Vivek Kumar</td><td>Math</td></tr>
<tr><td>1004</td><td>Sameer Ali</td><td>Botany</td></tr>
</table><!-- Ends the table -->
</body>
</html>

Explanation:

This HTML/CSS code creates a table with zebra striping, where even rows have a different background color from odd rows.
The table is styled using CSS to add a border, and the table header cells (th) have a different background color.
CSS nth-child pseudo-class is used to select and style even rows of the table body with a different background color.

Live Demo:

See the Pen zebra-table-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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