And lo On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:37:00 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

> On 22/09/2010 10:12 AM, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>
>> As Invisible says it's one of those old ones that never got used because
>> certain well-used browsers never implemented it.
>
> Or rather, "no browsers on Earth actually implemented it at all".
>
>> I mean it's only taken, what, 12+ years to get to this level :-)
>
> I'm still waiting for the day when you can take an ordinary <table>  
> element with no special markup, and style is so that each row as an  
> alternating background colour. :-P
>
> (Currently the only way to do this is to assign different style classes  
> to each row.)

Off the top of my head I don't know which browsers support :nth-child(),  
but I'm betting the latest releases of IE don't. Tum te tum oh yes what a  
surprise it doesn't; the latest versions of Firefox do though so you can  
use it if you want.

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Phil Cook

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