Row colour abstraction

[kopite]

Hi

I am trying to abstract the background colour of a row.

e.g. ....rows[i].style.backgroundColor;

I am able to set a new colour but not able to abstract the current colour.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks in advance.

[kopite]

Thanks, that works, but... it is before setting the new colour that I want to get the existing backgroundcolor. Unfortunately the colour of the row is set by a stylesheet

e.g.

<tr class="colourclass">

So how can I extract from the row the value - when it is a stylesheet that applies the colour ?

[kopite]

Thanks, that is going to be v useful.

But, how do I extract what classname the row is using.

e.g. <tr class="colourclass">

Secondly, how do I establish which styleSheet the class resides as opposed to looping through the entire collection?

cheers

[kopite]

Hmmm, but how do I get the className from a particular row, I have tried using these variations but to no avail...

e.g.
document.databody.rows[i].className;

document.getElementById(document.databody.rows[3].id).className;

It is return nothing ! :confused:

[kopite]

This works

[form].elements[i].parentNode.parentNode.className

but it is probably a little unwise as it relies on only row elements existing in the form.

Any other suggestions?