How do you set alternating colors in the list of topics

[ToyKeeper]

@rahim123

What would be the best way to implement this with different colors depending on whether the light or dark theme is in use?

There are at least two methods which work:

• Use different colors for different themes.
• Shade rows with a translucent medium gray, so it’ll work on both light and dark backgrounds. Like, give nth-child(odd) rows a color like background: #80808040;.

If it helps, I published a stylesheet override which demonstrates the first method… setting colors per-theme. For details, look in style.css for any parts containing nth-child.

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Here’s an example of how it looks in a light theme:

… and each theme has its own color definitions, so the table rows fit each theme.