Cols, colgroups and css ":hover" pseudoclass

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I'm trying to create a table to display an individual's BMI.

As a part of this, I'd like, on :hover, for the <tr> and <col> (or <colgroup>) to be highlighted also, in order for the intersection to be more apparent.

As the table will feature both metric and imperial measurements, the :hover doesn't have to stop at the cell (from any direction) and would, in fact, be a bonus if it extended from one axis to the other. I'm also using the XHTML 1.1 Strict doctype, if this makes a difference?

So... an example (the real table's... larger), but this should be representative:

<script>

tr:hover {background-color: #ffa; }

colgroup:hover,
col:hover {background-color: #ffa; }

</script>

...

<table>
    <col class="weight"></col><colgroup span="3"><col class="bmi"></col></colgroup>

    <tr>
        <th></th>
        <th>50kg</th>
        <th>55kg</th>
        <th>60kg</th>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>160cm</td>
        <td>20</td>
        <td>21</td>
        <td>23</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>165cm</td>
        <td>18</td>
        <td>20</td>
        <td>22</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>170cm</td>
        <td>17</td>
        <td>19</td>
        <td>21</td>
    </tr>

</table>

Am I asking the impossible, do I need to go JQuery-wards?

5 Answers

There is a very decent jQuery plugin I've come across located here which does a very good job of this kind of thing with loads of examples. Preferentially I'd use that.

AFAIK CSS Hovers on TR's aren't supported in IE anyway, so at best the TR part of that will only work in Firefox.

Never even seen a :hover work on a col/colgroup so not sure if that's possible...

Think you might be stuck with a Javascript implementation.

Theres an example here that works (rows & cols) in Firefox but again its broken in IE... cols don't work.

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