Title: Can I disable table headers?
Last modified: November 17, 2019

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# Can I disable table headers?

 *  Resolved [capvet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/capvet/)
 * (@capvet)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-i-disable-table-headers/)
 * I’m working with tables (for actual tabular data!) and the theme I picked was
   formatting the header row differently. I’ve overcome that mostly by overriding
   the CSS used in the “Additional CSS” section.
 * But I’m going to have a lot of data, so I wanted to color alternate rows, for
   easier tracking. This revealed that the code I’m using considers the header row,
   a special thing, and therefor colors it the same as the row under it. Meaning
   that while every other row is colored, the top two are the same.
 * tr:nth-child(even) {
    background-color: #EEEEEE; }
 * So I’m curious if there’s a way to tell the tables to just not use header rows
   at all? Can I just make everything a td instead of a th somehow?
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not a Developing with WordPress
      topic
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcan-i-disable-table-headers%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [capvet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/capvet/)
 * (@capvet)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-i-disable-table-headers/#post-12141971)
 * Scratch that, I think it’s a plugin I’m using.

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 * [table](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/table/)
 * [tables](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tables/)

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 * Last reply from: [capvet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/capvet/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-i-disable-table-headers/#post-12141971)
 * Status: resolved

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