How do I have it cycle colors

I’m using Ditto to list out a bunch of articles and I want to have it print out where every other line has a different color. Essentially a placeholder where this article it prints "0" and next article it prints out "1" and then 0 and then 1 and so on. Is this possible?

I guess this is what you’re looking for:
&tplAlt -- The template you specifiy with this parameter will be used for every-other item in the list.
(from the manual )

That works, I guess I was hoping for a placeholder type solution so I didn’t have to have two templates for the same thing, I could just make it happen with CSS.

I would be inclined to use JavaScript to deal with this - have a look at the Splintered Striper script @

http://24ways.org/2005/splintered-striper

• targets any type of parent element (and, if specified, only those with a certain class)
• assigns two or more classes (rather than just two background colours) to the child elements inside the parent
• preserves any existing classes already assigned to the child elements