Formatting background with cycle

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I've got a <tr> with onmouseout="this.style.background='<%= cycle(odd-row, 'even-row')%>';"

But that doesn't seem to work. onmouseover changes the bg to white, and I need to get the color back to its original color onmouseout.

The problem is the color is different for alternating rows.

Any help is appreciated!

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The result of your cycle will be a string, so the normal way to use this would be to assign the string to a class name, and then for each class, you define the background style you need in your stylesheet.

<tr class="<%= cycle("even", "odd") -%>">

see http://www.railsbrain.com/api/rails-2.0.2/doc/index.html?a=M001928&name=cycle.

If you want to build the whole style fro the cycle, it would need to be like this

style="background-color: <%= cycle("#fff", "#ccc")

hth Tonypm