How to style each table cell in a column via CSS?

Question

I have an ordinary HTML table:

<table>   <tr>     <td class="first-column-style">FAT</td>      <td>...</td>   </tr>   <tr>     <td class="first-column-style">FAT</td>     <td>...</td>   </tr> </table> 

I want to apply CSS style to every table cell (td) in a particular column. Is it possible to do that without applying the class/style attribute to every table cell in that column, and without JavaScript?

Answer 1

2015 answer, and based on the first-child answer but MUCH cleaner.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%3Anth-child

td:nth-child(1) { /* first column */ } td:nth-child(2) { /* second column */ } td:nth-child(3) { /* third column */ } 

Super clean code

Answer 2

Additionally to Sean Patrick Floyd's solution you can combine :first-child with the adjacent sibling selector + (also not supported by IE6):

td:first-child { /* first column */ }  td:first-child + td { /* second column */ }  td:first-child + td + td { /* third column */ }  /* etc. */