DataTables highlighting via CSS example

Preamble

When highlighting rows using CSS :hover, you need to be aware of the sorting class which is applied to elements in the column currently being sorted (assuming it is enabled - it is by default). This example shows how to consider this in CSS, with highlighting for each row, and a little tint for the sorting column to maintain it's visibility as the column currently being sorted upon.

Live example

Rendering engineBrowserPlatform(s)Engine versionCSS grade
Rendering engineBrowserPlatform(s)Engine versionCSS grade
Gecko Firefox 1.0 Win 98+ / OSX.2+ 1.7 A
Gecko Firefox 1.5 Win 98+ / OSX.2+ 1.8 A
Gecko Firefox 2.0 Win 98+ / OSX.2+ 1.8 A
Gecko Firefox 3.0 Win 2k+ / OSX.3+ 1.9 A
Gecko Camino 1.0 OSX.2+ 1.8 A
Gecko Camino 1.5 OSX.3+ 1.8 A
Gecko Netscape 7.2 Win 95+ / Mac OS 8.6-9.2 1.7 A
Gecko Netscape Browser 8 Win 98SE+ 1.7 A
Gecko Netscape Navigator 9 Win 98+ / OSX.2+ 1.8 A
Gecko Mozilla 1.0 Win 95+ / OSX.1+ 1 A
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Initialisation code

Javascript:

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$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').dataTable();
} );

CSS (note that for this example the selector ".ex_highlight" is used to limit the CSS here to just this example.

.ex_highlight #example tbody tr.even:hover, #example tbody tr.even td.highlighted {
	background-color: #ECFFB3;
}

.ex_highlight #example tbody tr.odd:hover, #example tbody tr.odd td.highlighted {
	background-color: #E6FF99;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover {
	background-color: #ECFFB3;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_1 {
	background-color: #DDFF75;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_2 {
	background-color: #E7FF9E;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_3 {
	background-color: #E2FF89;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover {
	background-color: #E6FF99;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_1 {
	background-color: #D6FF5C;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_2 {
	background-color: #E0FF84;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_3 {
	background-color: #DBFF70;
}

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