IE: nth-child() using odd/even isn't working

Question

My table (that works perfectly on Chrome, FireFox and Opera) is not displaying correctly on Internet Explorer.

The background remains white! (I am using IE-8)

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Answer 1

You can use first-child and "+" to emulate nth-child, example:

tr > td:first-child + td + td + td + td + td + td + td + td {
    background-color: red;
}

That select the 9th column, just like nth-child(9), and that works on IE