Preamble

When highlighting rows using CSS :hover, you need to be aware of the sorting class which is applied to elements in the column currently being sorted (assuming it is enabled - it is by default). This example shows how to consider this in CSS, with highlighting for each row, and a little tint for the sorting column to maintain it's visibility as the column currently being sorted upon.

Live example

Initialisation code

Javascript:

$(document).ready(function() {
	$('#example').dataTable();
} );

CSS (note that for this example the selector ".ex_highlight" is used to limit the CSS here to just this example.

.ex_highlight #example tbody tr.even:hover, #example tbody tr.even td.highlighted {
	background-color: #ECFFB3;
}

.ex_highlight #example tbody tr.odd:hover, #example tbody tr.odd td.highlighted {
	background-color: #E6FF99;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover {
	background-color: #ECFFB3;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_1 {
	background-color: #DDFF75;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_2 {
	background-color: #E7FF9E;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_3 {
	background-color: #E2FF89;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover {
	background-color: #E6FF99;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_1 {
	background-color: #D6FF5C;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_2 {
	background-color: #E0FF84;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_3 {
	background-color: #DBFF70;
}

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