[css] Use table row coloring for cells in Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap offers classes to color table rows like so:

<tr class="success">

I like the color choice and the class naming. Now what I would like to do, is to re-use these classes and apply them on table cells, too. Obviously, I could define my own classes with the same colors and be done with it.

But is there a shorthand in CSS. LESS, to let the td inherit the classes?

Bottom line is that you'll have to write a new css rule for that.

Depending on which bundle of Twitter Bootstrap you're using, you should have variables for the various colours.

Try something like:

.table tbody tr > td {
  &.success { background-color: $green; }
  &.info { background-color: $blue; }
  ...
}

Surely there's a way to use extend or the LESS equivalent to avoid repeating the same styling.

With the current version of Bootstrap (3.3.7), it is possible to color a single cell of a table like so:

<td class = 'text-center col-md-4 success'>

Updated html for the newer bootstrap

    .table-hover > tbody > tr.danger:hover > td {
     background-color: red !important;
}
.table-hover > tbody > tr.warning:hover > td {
     background-color: yellow !important;
}
.table-hover > tbody > tr.success:hover > td {
     background-color: blue !important;
}

With less you can set it up like this;

.table tbody tr {
    &.error > td { background-color: red !important; }
    &.error:hover > td { background-color: yellow !important; }
    &.success > td { background-color: green !important; }
    &.success:hover > td { background-color: yellow !important; }
    ...
}

That did the trick for me.