On Aug 5, 2011, at 12:56 AM, Joergen W. Lang wrote:

>  tr:nth-child(1) th
> 
> works just fine. Styling the tfoot seems to be a different story, though. I 
> do not see any other way to reference it explicitely without using
> 
>  tfoot tr:nth-child(2) td:nth-child(3) { ... }

Indeed, if you need different styling for rows or cells in a tfoot, you need to 
isolate it in your selector

better I think:
tfoot > tr:nth-child(2) td:nth-child(3) { ... }

>> Of course - the tfoot comes after the tbody in the rendering, and
>> thus the counting of rows.
> 
> Error on my side. I was mistaken because tfoot needs to be defined before 
> tbody.

In html5, tfoot can come after tbody in the source code.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#the-tfoot-element
(the wording is more confusing that last time I checked that… :-p)

Philippe
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