Item12609: TablePlugin does not generate unique CSS row number

Extract from the docs:

CSS written by TablePlugin

.foswikiTableCol + column number	Unique column identifier, for instance: foswikiTableCol0
.foswikiTableRow + type + row number	Unique row identifier, for instance: foswikiTableRowdataBg0

The columns are indeed number 0, 1, 2, 3 ...

The rows are actually numbered 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 ...

At the very least, the docs and code do not agree. I suspect fixing docs is the immediate option as quite a bit of time has lapsed and backwards compatibility comes into play.

Is generating a css class with a unique row-id actually useful? Certainly nobody has complained for years about this issue suggesting nobody has required this feature.

I now have a need to control the style of different rows which is why I came across this, but I am not sure that controllong css is the best approach, what are the alternative approaches?

-- JulianLevens - 22 Oct 2013

The 0/1 row numbering is used I suspect to change the background color for alternating rows. Changing this to actually be an incrementing row number would need to be thought through how to handle the even/odd highlighting.

-- GeorgeClark - 29 May 2014

Both classes for enumerating rows and cols are not required anymore nowadays as all browsers support nth-child. Actually those classes should be removed all together as it inflates the page size for large tables in a non-trivial way.

-- MichaelDaum - 23 Oct 2019

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