Highlighting columns in a table with jQuery

Question

I have a table and I am highlighting alternate columns in the table using jquery

$(\"table.Table22 tr td:nth-child(even)\").css(\"background\",\"blue\");
         


        

Answer 1

Untested but perhaps: http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/not#expr

$("table.Table22 tr td:nth-child(even)").not("table.Table22 tr td table").css("background","blue");