css, asp:listview and nth-child - asp.net

Question

I'm trying to learn CSS3 and get away from using table tags. Working with Visual studio 2010, .net 4.0 and vb.nt in an asp.net project. I have a listview that i'm trying to get the rows to alternate color. What i have works but only partially. What is rendered to screen is several rows that have wrapping text. The shading is only effecting a small line across the screen.. it does not cover the entire row. Here is the code:
div.row
{
clear: both;
padding-top: 5px;
}
div.row:nth-child(1n+3)
{
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
div.row span.label
{
float: left; /*width: 100px;*/
text-align: right;
padding-right: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
}
div.row span.cell
{
float: left; /*width: 335px;*/
text-align: left;
}
Here is the markup:
<ItemTemplate>
<div class="row" >
<span class="cell" style="width: 200px;">
<asp:HyperLink ID="lblCalendarDataID" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# "CalendarAddEdit.aspx?ID=" & databinder.eval(container.dataitem,"CalendarDataID")%>'
Text='<%# databinder.eval(container.dataitem,"Title")%>' />
</span>
<span class="cell" style="width: 150px;">
<asp:Label ID="lblStartDate1" runat="server" Text='<%# databinder.eval(container.dataitem,"StartDate1","{0:d}")%>' />
-
<asp:Label ID="lblEndDate1" runat="server" Text='<%# databinder.eval(container.dataitem,"EndDate1","{0:d}")%>' />
</span>
<span class="cell" style="width: 150px;">
<asp:Label ID="lblStartTime1" runat="server" Text='<%# databinder.eval(container.dataitem,"StartTime1", "{0:t}")%>' />
-
<asp:Label ID="lblEndTime1" runat="server" Text='<%# databinder.eval(container.dataitem,"EndTime1", "{0:t}")%>' />
</span>
<span class="cell" style="width: 350px;">
<asp:Label ID="lblDescription" runat="server" Text='<%# databinder.eval(container.dataitem,"Description")%>' />
</span>
<span class="cell" style="width: 50px;">
<asp:HyperLink ID="hlDeleteID" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# "CalendarDelete.aspx?ID=" & databinder.eval(container.dataitem,"CalendarDataID")%>'
Text="Delete" />
</span>
</div>
</ItemTemplate>
anyone know what i'm doing wrong. I tried to use the alternatingItemTemplate but could not get it to shade. In that senerio.. i did a
<div class="row" style="background-color: #C0C0C0;">
any help would be great.

Answer 1

To have your background shading do what you want, try modifying this style:
div.row:nth-child(1n+3)
{
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
to be this:
div.row:nth-child(1n+3) span
{
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
to actually apply the background color to the spans that contain the content.