Specifying a list of arbitrary children (no pattern) for nth-child and nth-of-type

Question

So I\'ve now read enough about various funky nth-child and nth-of-type patterns to have the seventh son of the seventh son fly a space-ship backwards t

Answer 1

When CSS lacks a feature, Sass can help. You can try a formula like this one in Sass. It's not the most elegant solution, but perhaps you can improve on it.

$children: 1,3,7,10;

@each $child in $children {
  td:nth-child(#{$child}) {
    ...
  }
}