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06 Feb, 2008

Alternate Background Colors Using PHP

Posted by: john In: javascript|php|programing

background_change.gifYou now can look in almost any website or web application where the background colors are alternating. This is a great (and easy) way to improve the user interface for the end users.

Here’s a quick explanation of what’s going on in the demo file below:

First we set the alternating backgrounds we want to use.

$bg1 = "#f5f5f5";
$bg2 = "#FFFFFF";

Then as we pass through a loop of some kind this code snip rotates the variable $bg to the background colors we set above:
$bg = ($i++ & 1) ? $bg1 : $bg2;

In the example files, we’ve added some javascript to the table
‘s to add an additional hover effect as well as some styling to improve the look of the tables.

Demo | Source File

Comment if you have any questions or suggestions.

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3 Comments »

Comment by Brenda

Exellent article!!
Can you recomend any calendar PHP without SQL?

Comment by john

I’ve written one about a year ago that I’m hoping to post on here soon. The calendar only includes PHP and some optional javascript. Please check back for the article.

 
 
Comment by laptop satış

very useful information . . .

 
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