Question

Here’s an example of my problem on jsFiddle.

I have a table with striped rows imposed by using tr:nth-child(odd) in the CSS, as is done in Twitter Bootstrap for the table-striped class. I want to highlight the most recent clicked row of that table. I do that with the following Javascript:

$('#mytable tbody tr').live('click', function(event) {
    $clicked_tr = $(this);
    $clicked_tr.parent().children().each(function() {
        $(this).removeClass('highlight')
    });
    $clicked_tr.addClass('highlight');
});

That code works fine in a table without striped rows. But with striped rows, the background color of the highlight class won’t override the background color of the table-striped class. Why is that? And how can I make it work?

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/xu2AH/9/

.table-striped class

.table-striped tbody tr.highlight td { background-color: red; }

… and cleaner jQuery:

$('#mytable tbody tr').live('click', function(event) {
    $(this).addClass('highlight').siblings().removeClass('highlight');
});​

Update: .live() has since been deprecated. Use .on().

$('#mytable').on('click', 'tbody tr', function(event) {
    $(this).addClass('highlight').siblings().removeClass('highlight');
});​

Fixed: http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/xu2AH/127/