Zebra striping

This article is about the usage in tables. For other uses, see Zebra stripes (disambiguation).

Zebra striping is the coloring of every other row of a table to improve readability.^[1] Especially in wide tables with numerous columns, it can be difficult for a reader following a row to be confident that their gaze has not strayed to an adjacent row without some means of distinguishing rows at a glance. Although zebra striping has been used for a long time to improve readability, there is relatively little data on how much it helps.^[2][3]

Zebra striping used in Nautilus.

Implementation

In HTML documents, zebra striping can be implemented using the Cascading Style Sheets :nth-child(even) pseudo-selector.^[4][5]

The Bootstrap CSS framework features zebra striping through the .table-striped class.^[6]

See also

• Green bar paper, continuous sheets pre-printed with green rows, once-common stationery used when physically printing tabular data