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Learn more about Labs How to make first column of a row black and second column red Ask Question Asked 12 years, 4 months ago Modified 5 years, 5 months ago Viewed 23k times 8

I would like to give a css class to a row and i would like to make the first column black and the second column red. I dont want to use colgroup because this is a row specific action not whole table should be effected.

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Share Improve this question Follow edited Oct 25, 2018 at 6:32 Alex Kulinkovich 4,6881515 gold badges4949 silver badges5353 bronze badges asked Mar 4, 2012 at 13:23 rematnarabrematnarab 1,29544 gold badges2424 silver badges4343 bronze badges 1

• 1 Can you not just give each cell a class and style with CSS? – AlexKempton Commented Mar 4, 2012 at 13:27

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You could use:

td { color: black; } td:nth-child(2) { color: red; } Share Improve this answer Follow answered Mar 4, 2012 at 13:26 QtaxQtax 33.7k99 gold badges8888 silver badges124124 bronze badges 2

• Thisi s possible without CSS3 for better browser support. – Smamatti Commented Mar 4, 2012 at 13:30
• @Qtax how about every odd rows second column? Would be nested? tr:nth-child(even) { td:nth-child(2) { color: red; }} – 3kstc Commented Mar 16, 2019 at 11:52

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This is possible without CSS3 !

Sample http://jsfiddle.net/Q3yu5/1/

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tr.special_row td { background-color: #000; } tr.special_row td + td { background-color: #f00; } tr.special_row td+td+td { background-color: #fff; }

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<table> <tr class="special_row"> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> </tr> </table> Share Improve this answer Follow edited Mar 4, 2012 at 18:35 answered Mar 4, 2012 at 13:29 SmamattiSmamatti 3,92133 gold badges3333 silver badges4343 bronze badges 2

• 1 I'm afraid this is not exactly what @rematnarab was looking for. I didn't keep in mind, that not the whole table should be affected. edited tr to a more specific rule. – Smamatti Commented Mar 4, 2012 at 18:33
• Just a note: I was in the need of your PREVIOUS Version of the code. +1 for review log! – Michel Ayres Commented Mar 13, 2014 at 20:46

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... this is a row specific action not whole table should be effected.

Then applying different styles to your first and second column of the given row could be useful:

<style type="text/css"> td.first { background-color: black; color: white; } td.second { background-color: red; color: white; } </style> <table> <tr> <td class="first">1st row, 1st column</td> <td class="second">1st row, 2nd column</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2nd row, 1st column</td> <td>2nd row, 2nd column</td> </tr> </table> Share Improve this answer Follow edited Mar 4, 2012 at 13:42 answered Mar 4, 2012 at 13:34 JuvanisJuvanis 25.9k55 gold badges7070 silver badges8888 bronze badges 1

• +1 Whoops. You are right! --> not whole table should be effected – Smamatti Commented Mar 4, 2012 at 18:31

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In CSS3 you can use the :nth-child() pseudo-class.

See the Docs for how to use it. Also, as of early 2019, there's barely a reason not to use CSS3 selectors.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Feb 3, 2019 at 14:12 answered Mar 4, 2012 at 13:27 m02ph3u5m02ph3u5 3,15277 gold badges4040 silver badges5656 bronze badges Add a comment | 0

You need to create 2 types of CSS. For each row you add the CSS you want.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Mar 4, 2012 at 22:15 FelipeAls 22k99 gold badges5454 silver badges7474 bronze badges answered Mar 4, 2012 at 13:26 OferOfer 5,13966 gold badges2121 silver badges2727 bronze badges 2

• 1/ Which type of CSS? Do you mean CSS rules? 2/ Are you saying that you add style attributes on the first two cells of each row? Better separate CSS from HTML whenever it's possible (and it's possible here) – FelipeAls Commented Mar 4, 2012 at 22:13
• exactly, this css can reuse in the future – Ofer Commented Mar 5, 2012 at 6:56

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