<p>Suppose you have a GridView with a few columns like:</p>

<p>| Foo | Bar | Total |</p>

<p>and you use a style sheet to make the alternating rows different colors, say light blue and white.</p>

<p>Is there a good way to make a particular column alternate in a different color?  For example, I might want the Total column to alternate in medium and light red to bring attention to it in a large grid.</p>

<p>BTW, I know you can programmatically change the color of a cell.  I'd like to stick to CSS if it all possible, however, so all my style stuff is in one place.  I also don't see an easy way to tell if I'm in an alternating row when I'm inside the event handler.</p>

If you're using jQuery, you can do it pretty easily.
```
```
$("table#myTable col:odd").css("background-color:#ffe");
```
```
the
```
:odd
```
selector is not available in most current browsers, but jQuery gives it to us today.
For rows, you can do it with the built-in AlternatingRowStyle element.
Edit: found a good resource for some different ways of doing this:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StylingColumns