Hi Justin, Not well supported by IE but you can do with adjacent sibling selectors:
td+td+td { background: red;} Only the third column would display a red background Sample: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/css/adjacent.htm Russ > Hi Folks, > > Is there any way (without ids or classes) to target the 3rd (for > example) column of a table to apply styles? > > What I'm hoping for is something like... > > table td[3] { text-align:right; } > > ... but I can't see anything like that in my references. > > TIA > > --- > Justin French > http://indent.com.au ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************