The Core: Action Beans and JSPs - Stripes...and Java Web Development is Fun Again - page 38

Figure 3.3: The list of contacts in a basic table
The code is more compact and more powerful. The <d:table> tag takes
the list of objects from name= and places each object in the variable
indicated in id= . The empty requestURI= "" parameter is necessary so that
the sorting URLs constructed by the Display Tag build on the Stripes
URL. The table is now sortable by column and is sorted by the first
column by default with defaultsort= "1".
Each <d:column> tag adds a column to the table, with the given title=
and the data coming from the property= of each object. Each column is
made sortable by adding sortable= "true".
Shading Alternate Rows
Display Tag adds class= "odd" or class= "even" to the <tr> tags that it
generates. To shade these rows in different colors, you just have to
style them in the CSS file.
For example:
Download email_02/web/css/style.css
tr.odd {
background-color: #E5F5E5;
}
tr.even {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}