Apply CSS style to alternating columns of Listview

Question

I would like to apply a specific CSS style to item for alternating column of a Listview. Is there a way to do that? Since a listview is dynamic and the number of columns and rows that are render depends on the size and resolution of display, the number of
items in a column will change.
Thank you.
Christine
MCSD, MCITP, MCTS

Answer 1

If you could consider the alternating colours a progressive enhancement and not absolutely required in all (old) browsers then you could use a CSS n-th child selector to apply the colour without changing the HTML. 
If you have jQuery (or similar) in your project already and want a solution for older browser, you could use that to select every other row with the :odd or :even selector.
Update (Example)
Assuming we are using table rows
tr:nth-child(odd) td{
background-color: red;
You can also use even, 2n or 2n+1. This would work equally well with
<li> tags.
More examples:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/pseudoclass-nthchild