It is annoying that CodeIgniter’s HTML Table class does not support the ability to add attributes to the table rows such as classes, ids and data-attr. Using something like the Twitter BootStrap you may be wanting to add classes to the rows so that you can style rows that are success, errors or warnings.

I decided that this is crazy and that the rows should work the same as the cells. I have posted two options on GitHub to overcome the problem:

1. Extend the Table class -> https://github.com/dalehurley/codeigniter-table-rows -> add MY_Table.php to application/libraries folder
2. Replace the Table class -> https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/pull/2540 -> replace CI_Table.php in system/libraries folder (please comment and push for this to be pulled)

Despite which solution you chose you can add the HTML attributes to the table row using 1 of two methods:

    $rows[]=array('data'=>$row, 'class'=>'warning');
    echo $this->table->generate($rows);

or

    $this->table->add_row(array('data'=>$row, 'class'=>'warning'));

So you may want to do something like:

    $this->load->library('table');
    foreach($people as $person)
    {
        $row_data=array($person->given_name,$person->family_name,$person->city);
        $this->table->add_row(array('data'=>$row_data, 'class'=>$person->status));
    }
    $this->table->set_heading(array('Given name','Family Name', 'City'));
    echo $this->table->generate($rows);

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