Zebra stripping not working in IE8

Question

I wrote the following jquery to apply zebra stripping to a certain row in a table. This works fine in Chrome and Firefox but doesnt work in IE8. W

<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("tr.alt:even").css("background-color", "#f0f8ff");
$("tr.alt:odd").css("background-color", "#fcfceb");
});
</script>

Here is the HTML

<tr class="alt">
    <td class="status"></td>
    <td class>Received</td>
</tr>
<tr class="alt">
    <td class="status"></td>
    <td class>Received</td>
</tr>
<tr class="alt">
    <td class="status"></td>
    <td class>Received</td>
</tr>
<tr class="alt">
    <td class="status></td>
    <td class>Received</td>
</tr>
<tr class="alt">
    <td class="status></td>
    <td class>Received</td>
</tr>

Answer 1

<style type="text/css">
  tr.odd 
{
    background:fcfceb;
}   
  tr.even 
{
    background:f0f8ff;
}
tr.zero 
{
    background-color:#FFE4E1;
}
</style>

<script>
  jQuery(function($) {
    $("tr.alternateColor:odd").addClass("odd");
    $("tr.alternateColor:even").addClass("even");
</script>

Finally got it to run. I was having issues with my CSS in IE