How can I add rows to a table with this structure using javascript?

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How can I add rows to a table with this structure using javascript?

Basically I want to be able to click a button and have a new row created within the table for each of the columns used below. So for instance, it could be name: new book, quantity:30 etc.

HTML

<table id="dynamictable">
              <tbody>
                <tr>
                  <td class="name">My Favorite book</td>
                  <td class="quantity">x 20</td>
                  <td class="unit_price">£8.99</td>
                  <td class="total">£179.80</td>
                  <td class="remove"><img src="image/cross.png"></td>
                </tr>
               </tbody>
            </table>

Posted 4-Mar-13 3:47am

Andrews Smith

Updated 4-Mar-13 4:00am

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Jameel VM · Answer 1 · 2013-03-04T04:11:00

Solution 1

Using jQuery you can easily add rows like below

JavaScript

$('#buttonId').click(function()
{
string htmlRow="<tr><td class="name">My Favorite book2</td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td class="quantity">x 20</td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td class="unit_price">£8.99</td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td class="total">£179.80</td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td class="remove"><img src="image/cross.png"></img></td></tr>";
$('#dynamictable>tbody').append(htmlRow);
}

Hope this helps

Posted 4-Mar-13 4:11am

Jameel VM

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Andrews Smith 4-Mar-13 12:09pm

That wouldn't work. Just came up with this instead...

My Favorite book x 20 £8.99 £179.80 $('#buttonId').click(function() { string htmlRow="My Favorite book2
x 20
£8.99
£179.80
"; $('#dynamictable>tbody').append(htmlRow); }

Andrews Smith 4-Mar-13 12:09pm

My code looks like this using your example above:

<table id="dynamictable">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="name">My Favorite book</td>
<td class="quantity">x 20</td>
<td class="unit_price">£8.99</td>
<td class="total">£179.80</td>
<td class="remove">
<img src="image/cross.png">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

$('#buttonId').click(function()
{
string htmlRow="<tr><td class="name">My Favorite book2</td></tr><table><tbody><tr><td class="quantity">x 20</td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td class="unit_price">£8.99</td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td class="total">£179.80</td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td class="remove"><img src="image/cross.png"></img></td></tr>";
$('#dynamictable>tbody').append(htmlRow);
}

MattHarrington · Answer 2 · 2013-03-04T04:17:00

The strategy is to first get the element ID you want to append to, then create a new row element with the new data, and then append that element to the ID you got in step 1.

Perhaps something like this?

XML

<pre lang="Javascript">var tableBody = document.getElementById('tableBody');
var newRow= document.createElement('tr');
newdiv.innerHTML = 'My Second Favorite Book';
tableBody.appendChild(newRow);</pre>

You'll need to give the tbody an id of 'tableBody'. You'll also then need to follow this strategy to add the td elements.