Highlighting the clicked row of a striped HTML table

.table-striped class

.table-striped tbody tr.highlight td { background-color: red; }

… and cleaner jQuery:

$('#mytable tbody tr').live('click', function(event) {
    $(this).addClass('highlight').siblings().removeClass('highlight');
});

Update: .live() has since been deprecated. Use .on().

$('#mytable').on('click', 'tbody tr', function(event) {
    $(this).addClass('highlight').siblings().removeClass('highlight');
});

Fixed: http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/xu2AH/127/