[drupal-devel] [bug] Zebra stripe table CSS class names are badly chosen

[Thox]

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/25067

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      4.6.0
 Component:    base system
 Category:     bug reports
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  Thox
 Updated by:   Thox
 Status:       patch
 Attachment:   http://drupal.org/files/issues/zebra-classnames.patch (1.41 KB)

The CSS class names chosen for table rows are badly chosen: "light" and
"dark". Since CSS could be used to make the "dark" rows light and the
"light" rows dark, the names are wrong. The attached patch changes
"light" and "dark" to "odd" and "even".


In the future, all class names should describe /why/ an element is
styled differently, not /how/ it is to be styled. e.g. "Red" is a bad
class name, "important" is far better.




Thox