Odd/even and no result

Hi,

Using articles to display news items and for latest vacancies. I'd like to be able to use an odd/even template and would also like to display a 'no results' message if there are no articles, i.e. they have all been unpublished or expired? I have used a chunk to template my front display, but didn't find a chunk option for odd/even?

If you're using repeating classes or elements and you simply want to style them differently jQuery would be one solution. (see http://api.jquery.com/odd-selector/), or just the CSS nth-child selector -- as in

thanks for the reply - I am looking for a class based solution rather than javascript and older browsers don't necessarily support nth child, but good ideas anyway.