How To Use Django Cycle Tag

Question

This hopefully is a pretty easy question. My endgoal is to be able to view my database entries in a table which I can sort via the column headers. I have read the documentation on cycle tags, but don't know they mean by 'row1' and 'row2':

{% for o in some_list %}
    <tr class="{% cycle 'row1' 'row2' %}">
        ...
    </tr>
{% endfor %}

Secondly, how would I correctly implement it into my template? I am using a very simple JS library, which will allow the sorting:

page.html

{% if Variable %}
    <table class="sortable">
        <tr>
            <th>Title 1</th>
            <th>Title 2</th>
            <th>Title 3</th>
            <th>Title 4</th>
            <th>Title 5</th>
        </tr>
    {% for stuff in Variable %}

        <tr class="{% cycle 'stuff' %}">    
            <td>
                <a href="{% url 'detail_page' stuff.id %}">
                {{ stuff.Name|capfirst }}</a>
            </td>
        </tr>
    {% endfor %}
    </table>
{% else %}
    <p>No Results Found</p>
{% endif %}

my models.py in case you need it:

def view(request):
    Variable = database.objects.all()
    context = {
        'Variable': Variable,
    }
    return render(request, 'app/page.html', context)

EDIT: It seems I had the right code all along, just some unevenly applied CSS that made my table not look like a table. The cycle tag was not needed, only the for loop. It also looked better after adding another table row:

{% for stuff in Variable %}
<tr>
    <td>{{ stuff.Name|capfirst }}</td>
    <td>{{ stuff.Number|capfirst }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}

Answer 1

For the cycle tag, the two arguments will be added alternately to the template, for example, the code in your template {% for o in some_list %}<tr class="{% cycle 'row1' 'row2' %}"></tr>{% endfor %} would generate:

<tr class="row1">
    ...
</tr>
<tr class="row2">
    ...
</tr>
<tr class="row1">
    ...
</tr>
<tr class="row2">
    ...
</tr>
<!-- ... and so on while there are elements in some_list -->

And so on. Normally you would attach some css to this, for example:

<style>
   .row1 {
      background: #345678;
   }
   .row2 {
      background: #123456;
   }
</style>

This would give alternate rows different background colours, for example.