I have my tables and they are great I can sort them and it works wonderfully except that they don\'t do the zebra striping until I sort them for the first time. My understa
With most browsers supporting CSS3, you don't really need to use the zebra widget anymore, unless you plan on filtering rows (see this demo).
Otherwise, try css that looks something like this:
table tbody > tr:nth-child(odd) > td, table tbody > tr:nth-child(odd) > th { background-color: #f9f9f9; }