Highlighting the clicked row of a striped HTML table

Question

Here\'s an example of my problem on jsFiddle.

I have a table with striped rows imposed by using tr:nth-child(odd) in the CSS, as is done in Twitter Boot

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/xu2AH/9/

.table-striped class

.table-striped tbody tr.highlight td { background-color: red; }

... and cleaner jQuery:

$('#mytable tbody tr').live('click', function(event) {
    $(this).addClass('highlight').siblings().removeClass('highlight');
});​

Update: .live() has since been deprecated. Use .on().

$('#mytable').on('click', 'tbody tr', function(event) {
    $(this).addClass('highlight').siblings().removeClass('highlight');
});​

Fixed: http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/xu2AH/127/