Zebra striping, also known as alternating row colors or candy striping, is the application of a different color or shading to alternating rows in a data table.  The striping not only makes your data more aesthetically pleasing, but it can also assist guide the reader’s eye along the row.  This effect may be even more beneficial for large tables of similar data or tables with large amounts of whitespace separating the columns where the eye may have a tendency to wander into adjacent rows.

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