Folks should really embrace the 21st century and use CSS. HTML 3.2 is dead (or at least I wish it was!) I use class="odd" and class="even" for my alternating table rows and then include something like the following in the CSS file:
A pretty yucky effect with those colours but, hey!
If you crowbar that into Julia's scary Struts example you can really - um - strut your stuff!
:roll:
Jules