nth-of-type miscounting

[marama]

Hello. Having some trouble with the counting of entries and the nth-of-type pseudo-selector. I wanted to alternate the background colour of the entries and tried to use this:

div#entries > div.inner > div.entry-wrapper:nth-of-type(odd)
{ background-color: #35bf9d; } /*blue*/

div#entries > div.inner > div.entry-wrapper:nth-of-type(even)
{ background-color: #525dbf; } /*green*/

But instead of the blue colour being behind the first post, it's behind the second and the green is behind the first, basically swapping the colours opposite from the code. I played around with different formulas and what seems to be happening is the first entry is being counted as the second type, with the last counted as 21 instead of 20. So at this point, I'm lost. I know if I was doing a simple alternating pattern, I could just switch the colours and be done, but I was planning to use different equations to vary it, but with the odd counting, I can't be sure if the equations will work right now.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Comments

[afuna]

Hmm, I don't think you'll need to worry about the bottomnav div, because it comes after everything else so won't affect the counting of anything before that.

I am not absolutely sure (would have to test), but I strongly believe that the same would be the case with nth-child.


PS. If you're touching S2 in addition to CSS, you can try overriding RecentPage::print_body. If not, then adjust your formulas a bit.

I'm wondering if it's worth adding another div around just the entries for all layouts in general, but there's so many divs already!

[marama]

I mentioned the bottom one as I was also experimenting with last-of-type, so yeah, it's affected. That one's an easy fix since I just tack on (2). I just hadn't realised it would count divs regardless of class/id. So my mistake there.

Not really familiar with the programming aspect of S2, but hey, sounds like a good time to get my feet wet.

I agree there really are a lot of divs, but maybe to really isolate only the entries would be useful?

[afuna]

I've been thinking about this one, and been on the fence, because on the one hand I see your point. On the other hand, we have so many wrappers already, and this one (at least) can be worked around... So Im leaning towards "no". But if you do need help figuring out how to work on s2 on your own, let me know!

(Adding a +1 offset would likely be easier though *g*)