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Zebra striping is the coloring of every other row of a
Zebra striping is the coloring of every other row of a table
Table may refer to:
* Table (database), how the table data arrangement is used within the databases
* Table (furniture), a piece of furniture with a flat surface and one or more legs
* Table (information), a data arrangement with rows and column ...
to improve readability
Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand a written text. The concept exists in both natural language and programming languages though in different forms. In natural language, the readability of text depends on its content ( ...
. Although zebra striping has been used for a long time to improve readability, there is relatively little data on how much it helps.
Implementation
InHTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets ( ...
documents, zebra striping can be implemented using the Cascading Style Sheets :nth-child(even) pseudo-selector.
The Bootstrap CSS framework features zebra striping through the .table-striped class.
See also
* Green bar paper, continuous sheets pre-printed with green rows, once-common stationery used when physically printing tabular dataReferences