When we add both "highlight" and "striped" class to the table tag, the odd row's background color is the same(#f2f2f2).
The highlight color should be changed, such as #eee.
How would we specify the striped color?
Like this.
table.highlight tbody tr:hover {
background-color: #eee !important;
}

I recommend changing the materializecss to abide by the guidelines as much as possible. I can make a pull request if that's okay with the team?
In 1.0 alpha we did do a light style update for table, but we'll do a more in depth one later. We'll be handling it after 1.0 goes stable.
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