Is it possible to style a table with rows having alternating background colours?

[sanga]

Perhaps a picture is worth 1000 words: so as in https://datatables.net/examples/data_sources/dom.html

I find it much easier to visually "track" rows with that alternating background colour-scheme. My initial attempt to do this kinda works but is not as beautiful as I might have hoped (i.e. the cells get alternating colours but the inter-cell spaces don't)

The above pic was generated by this:

bg = Style(bgcolor="rgb(40,40,40)")
table = Table(box=box.SIMPLE_HEAD, row_styles=["none", bg])

Oh and thanks for this awesome lib!

[willmcgugan]

Not currently, unless you were to set box=None

Its not quite what you are looking for, but you can set row_styles=['dim', ''] which will display a similar affect.

I'll look in to extending the background color across the box lines in the next release.

[sanga]

Thanks. Would you rather I opened this as an issue or are you happy having it tracked here?

[willmcgugan]

An issue would be good to track it. 👍