Timeline for To use or not to use "Zebra Stripes", or Alternating Row Colors for Tables
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| Jun 23, 2017 at 18:53 | comment | added | maaartinus | @GeraldCombs The non-logical grouping is a bit confusing, but it seems to be necessary for long and wide printings as otherwise it might get hard to follow the lines. I don't think it makes sense on a screen where you hardly ever get more than 30 lines. | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 10:57 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @GeraldCombs: The example immediately makes me wonder how sample lines 1 to 3 belong together, while, for instance, sample lines 3 and 4 do not. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 18:31 | comment | added | Gerald Combs | Old-school green bar line printer paper grouped in bunches of three, e.g. pdp8online.com/images/greenbar.shtml. I've always found that easier to read than alternating rows. | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 3:18 | comment | added | Chris Moschini | @HenrikEkblom Indeed; I would recommend making the entire row highlight on click, not just the reference column. Obviously in some tables there would be parts that take some additional action onclick, so those regions should take that other action rather than highlighting (and be rendered in a way that makes that action obvious, like an Edit link). | |
| Feb 17, 2011 at 9:19 | comment | added | Henrik Ekblom | Your suggestion that the row should be highligted when clicking on it on a touchscreen has its limitations. A common scenario is that the reference column is the first, hence the leftmost. If you have to touch that one to highlight the row, your hand (if right handed) will cover the entire screen for each click wich can can have negative impact on the work flow. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 21:12 | comment | added | MrWhite | Zebra stripes per-row or per-bunch... Well I guess that kinda depends whether you are trying to differentiate between rows or bunches? For regular tabular data, I think per-row will be more common. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 20:48 | comment | added | Jari Keinänen | +1 for the mouseover-highlight; it's like reading a printed table with a ruler. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 20:01 | history | answered | Chris Moschini | CC BY-SA 2.5 |