HTML Table Styling

Use the css property to make your tables designing & Styling.

Zebra stripes

To style every other table row element, use the :nth-child(odd) selector like this:

<style>
    tr:nth-child(odd) {
        background-color: lightgray;
    }
</style>
<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Company</th>
        <th>Contact</th>
        <th>Country</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th>Alfreds Futterkiste</th>
        <th>Maria Anders</th>
        <th>Germany</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th>Centro comercial Moctezuma</th>
        <th>Francisco Chang</th>
        <th>Denver</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th>Moctezuma</th>
        <th>Anders</th>
        <th>USA</th>
    </tr>
</table>

Company	Contact	Country
Alfreds Futterkiste	Maria Anders	Germany
Centro comercial Moctezuma	Francisco Chang	Tokyo
Moctezuma	Anders	USA

Vertical Zebra stripes

Set the :nth-child(even) for table data elements like this:

<style>
    td:nth-child(even), td:nth-child(even) {
        background-color: gray;
    }
</style>

Company	Contact	Country	city
Alfreds Futterkiste	Maria Anders	Germany	Berlin
Centro comercial Moctezuma	Francisco Chang	Japan	Tokyo
Moctezuma	Anders	USA	Dearborn

Vertical & Horizontal Zebra stripes

Use an rgba() color to specify the transparency of the color:

<style>
    tr:nth-child(odd) {
         background-color: lightgray;
    }
    td:nth-child(even), td:nth-child(even) {
        background-color: gray;
    }
</style>

Company	Contact	Country	city
Alfreds Futterkiste	Maria Anders	Germany	Berlin
Centro comercial Moctezuma	Francisco Chang	Japan	Tokyo
Moctezuma	Anders	USA	Dearborn

Hoverable Table

Use the :hover selector on tr to highlight table rows on mouse over:

<style>
    tr: hover {
       background-color : lightgray;
    }
</style>

Company	Contact	Country
Alfreds Futterkiste	Maria Anders	Germany
Centro comercial Moctezuma	Francisco Chang	Tokyo
Moctezuma	Anders	USA

Conclusion

In this page (written and validated by A. Gawali) you learned about HTML Table styling . What's Next? If you are interested in completing HTML tutorial, your next topic will be learning about: HTML Table colgroup.

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