Alternate Row Colors UL LI

Question

I'm trying to alternate row colors but instead only the bullet points are alternating colors at http://althedge.xyz Can someone show me how to do this? Thanks

I'm using this css code below to alternate the bullet point color but how to alternate the row color.

ul:nth-of-type(odd) {  
  color: #ccc;
}

Php file

<?php
// Database Settings 
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_PORT', '*****');
define('DB_USER', '*****');
define('DB_PASS', '*****');
define('DB_NAME', '*****');

// Connection to Database
$database = new MySQLi(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_NAME, DB_PORT);

$sql = 'SELECT * '
        . ' FROM crypto ORDER BY Date DESC, Number DESC';

$resultSet = $database->query($sql);

$currentDate = false;
while ($row = $resultSet->fetch_assoc()) {
    if ($row['Date'] != $currentDate) {
        echo $row['Date'] ;
        $currentDate = $row['Date'];  
    }

    echo '<ul><li>' . 
    '<A HREF="'.  
    $row["Link"].
    '"style="text-decoration: none;"'.
    '">'. 
    $row["Article"].
    '</A>'.
    '</li></ul>';
} 

$html .= '</table>';
echo $html;
?>

Answer 1

Reviewing your code, the color is from the a tag, you can change your css this way to fix it

ul:nth-of-type(odd),
ul:nth-of-type(odd) a {  
  color: #ccc;
}

Answer 2

You can do this via simple css:

ul li {
    color: blue;
}
ul li:nth-child(odd) {
    color: grey;
}

Answer 3

The blue color is default link color, you need to change the color for link

ul:nth-of-type(odd) a {
    color: #ccc;
}

Answer 4

First, you should move the <ul> echo outside of the while loop. You only want a single <ul> element wrapping all of your <li> 's. That may honestly be intentional, but thought I should tell you nonetheless.

Next up, your provided CSS is targeting the <ul> element itself, rather than the markup inside of them. And, finally, anchor elements have default styling in web browsers – that's why they're blue currently.

 ul li:nth-of-type(odd) a { color: #ccc; } 

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Answer 5

<?php
// Database Settings 
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_PORT', '*****');
define('DB_USER', '*****');
define('DB_PASS', '*****');
define('DB_NAME', '*****');

// Connection to Database
$database = new MySQLi(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_NAME, DB_PORT);

$sql = 'SELECT * '
        . ' FROM crypto ORDER BY Date DESC, Number DESC';

$resultSet = $database->query($sql);

$currentDate = false;
echo "<ul>";
while ($row = $resultSet->fetch_assoc()) {
    if ($row['Date'] != $currentDate) {
        echo $row['Date'] ;
        $currentDate = $row['Date'];  
    }

    echo '<li>' . 
    '<A HREF="'.  
    $row["Link"].
    '"style="text-decoration: none;"'.
    '">'. 
    $row["Article"].
    '</A>'.
    '</li>';
} 
echo "</ul>";
$html .= '</table>';
echo $html;
?>