What is the best way to style alternating rows in a table?

Question

Obviously, the actual style of the odd/even rows will be done via a CSS class, but what is the best way to \"attach\" the class to the rows? Is is better to put it in the ma

Answer 1

As said in the other answers, doing it on a large table on the client side will be slower than on the server side, and may not work if the user has javascript disabled.

However, using a JS framework like jQuery makes it so easy that it's really tempting :

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.myTable tr:odd').addClass('alternateRow');
});