Stripe the table
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> body { font-family:Arial, sans-serif; } table { width:450px; } tr { background-color:#FEE; } tr.even { background-color:#EEF; } </style> </head> <body> <table> <thead> <tr><th>Article</th><th>Date</th></tr> </thead> <tfoot> <tr><td colspan="2">8 articles for October</td></tr> </tfoot> <tbody> <tr><td>A</td><td>B</td></tr> <tr class="even"><td>A</td><td>October 4</td></tr> <tr><td>B</td><td>October 8</td></tr> <tr class="even"><td>C</td><td>October 9</td></tr> <tr><td>D</td><td>October 15</td></tr> <tr class="even"><td>E</td><td>October 23</td></tr> <tr><td>F?</td><td>October 30</td></tr> <tr class="even"><td>Happy Halloween!</td><td>October 31</td></tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>