zebra striping

Noun

zebra striping (uncountable)

1. The alternation of plain and coloured backgrounds to aid readability where a document contains a table with rows of data or similar.
   • Rollover techniques, for example, once required JavaScript, but have been possible with CSS for many years now. The same thing is true of table-row zebra striping, which until recently could only be achieved by using additional markup on tr elements, or by using JavaScript to dynamically add this...2009 December, John Allsopp, Developing with Web Standards, New Riders Press, →ISBN
   • Listing 10.4. Zebra Striping Function […] We again used the autocomplete search form application to illustrate how to apply Ajax methods to the codebase. We then moved on to extending libraries through plug-in development and used a zebra striping function as an example.2012 July, Tim Wright, Learning JavaScript: A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of Modern JavaScript, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN
2. (slang) The practice of alternating between drinking an alcoholic beverage and drinking a non-alcoholic one.