Why doesn't CSS hover work on table rows when the cells inside the rows have class names?

Question

I am stuck with this problem so any help would be appreciated. I have a table with several rows. Each cell within the row belongs to a certain class. I use these class names to colour the cells.

Here is one example row from my table:

<tr>
     <td class = "summarypage-odd-column">Theme</td>    <td class = "summarypage-odd-column">Q2 2009</td>   <td class = "summarypage-odd-column">Q1 2009</td>
     <td class = "summarypage-even-column">Theme</td>   <td class = "summarypage-even-column">Q2 2009</td>  <td class = "summarypage-even-column">Q1 2009</td>
     <td class = "summarypage-odd-column">Business Area</td>    <td class = "summarypage-odd-column">Q1 2009</td>   <td class = "summarypage-odd-column">Q1 2008</td>
 </tr>

I would like to highlight each row when the user moves mouse pointer over any cell in that row. So I used the following CSS code to achieve that.

tr:hover {
  background-color: #FFFAF0; color: #000;
}

unfortunately it seems because each table data cell has a class name, the hover does not work. But if I remove the class names from data cells, the hover works.

My question is is there any way I can get the hover thing working for the table row, while still having class names for the table data cells inside the row.

Answer 1

Try this:

tr:hover td {
  background-color: #FFFAF0; color: #000;
}

Place this after the existing td style declarations to be safe