In a static data table, should rows be highlighted on hover?

1. How do I highlight a row in Datatable?
2. How do you highlight a table row in HTML?

How do I highlight a row in Datatable?

Highlighting a row is easy using CSS, but for column highlighting, you need to use a little bit of Javascript. This example shows DataTables making use of the cell(). index() method to get the index of the column that is to be operated on, and then the cells(). nodes() and column().

How do you highlight a table row in HTML?

When you create Web pages in HTML, you can use JavaScript functions to alter the appearance of page elements on user interaction. To highlight certain rows in a table, you can set Cascading Style Sheet declarations for these rows in their normal state and in their highlighted state.