Alternating table row colours - here's how

[kfutter]

As many of you already know, there is no built-in way for FileMaker to alternate table row colours via CDML. I recently needed to do this, so I thought I'd offer my simple-but-easy solution as thanks for the help I've received from these forums. I hope it helps someone else.

In the document head:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript>

function alternateRowColors(RecNum) {

if ((RecNum % 2) > 0) {

document.getElementById(RecNum).style.backgroundColor = '#FFFFFF';

} else {

document.getElementById(RecNum).style.backgroundColor = '#CCCCCC';

}

}

</script>

Then, in the HTML code for your table:

<table>

[FMP-Record]

<tr id="[FMP-CurrentRecordNumber]">

<td> ... </td>

etc

</tr>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">alternateRowColors('[FMP-CurrentRecordNumber]')</script>

[/FMP-Record]

</table>

There you go. I can explain how and why it works if requested, but it's probably pretty obvious to most of you.

Cheers,

Kevin Futter