"nth-child" CSS selector broken on CentOS

[hakimio]

Following two CSS rules produce different results on CentOS even they work exactly the same on Windows. "nth-child" applies the specified background to the whole table while "nth-of-type" correctly applies the background to "even" rows.

<style>
.dataTable tr:nth-child(even) {
        background-color: #F9F9F9;
    }
</style>

<style>
.dataTable tr:nth-of-type(even) {
        background-color: #F9F9F9;
    }
</style>

<table class="dataTable">
<tr><td>a</td></tr>
<tr><td>b</td></tr>
<tr><td>c</td></tr>
<tr><td>d</td></tr>
</table>

Could it be because CentOS uses old version of libxml?

EDIT: Extra info:
PHP: 7.1.4 (from Remi RPM repository)
CentOS: centos-release-7-3.1611.el7.centos.x86_64 (CentOS 7 on MS Azure)

[hakimio]

Must be a CentOS 7 issue. The sh#tty distro still uses libxml 2.9.1 which has a major bug. More info:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39899632/same-xpath-returns-different-values-on-centos-ubuntu/39956501#39956501

[hakimio]

We'll just say it's CentOS bug.

[bsweeney]

Thank ... goodness (?). But that's a bummer.

[bsweeney]

This would be good for a "known issues" document. Re-opening until I have a chance to work through documentation updates related to the 0.8.0 release.

[T0miii]

is there a wokaround for this?

[hakimio]

@T0miii Either use "nth-of-type" instead of "nth-child" or switch to another linux distro. CentOS 7.5 still uses buggy version of libxml2.

[T0miii]

@hakimio nth-of-type helped, thx a lot. We are planing to switch to ubuntu early next year.

[bsweeney]

Started a wiki page for known compatibility issues.