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<!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'> <head> <title>:first-child</title> <style type='text/css'> body { font-size: 12px sans-serif; } table { background: slateblue; color: #fff; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid mediumslateblue; } td { border: 1px solid darkslateblue; padding: 2px; } th { background: lightsteelblue; color: darkslateblue; font-size: 18px; text-align: left; } table tbody tr:first-child td { background: mediumslateblue; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Discography</h1> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Album</th> <th>Year</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>A</td> <td>March 1963</td> </tr> <tr> <td>B</td> <td>November 1963</td> </tr> <tr> <td>C</td> <td>July 1964</td> </tr> <tr> <td>D</td> <td>December 1964</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>