table row colour change??

[Orionsbelter]

Hi there what is it call and how do i do it? when i loop a table for example i have a inbox which has a table  where each mail i have in my inbox is a new row added to the table however i have seen some people are able to set the background color to say black then the next row is red then black then red etc...

 

How would i go about this?

 

Thank you for reading

[jl5501]

you keep a counter of your rows, and set background colour according to odd or even count

 

[jl5501]

so you have something like this

 

$i = 0;   // initialise your counter
while(......)    - however you are getting your rows
{
$bgcol = ($i % 2)?'#fff':'#ccc';
echo '<tr style="background-color:'.$bgcol.'">
.
.
.
.
$i++;
}

[Orionsbelter]

Thank you for this sir, may i ask what this is called for future reference?

[jl5501]

I would call it alternate row background colouring to improve readability