Dynamic creation of table with DOM

Question

Can someone tell me what\'s wrong with this code? I want to create a table with 2 columns and 3 rows, and in the cells I want Text1 and Text2 on every row. This code creates

Answer 1

when you say 'appendchild' you actually move your child from one parent to another. you have to create a node for each cell.

Answer 2

It is because you're only creating two td elements and 2 text nodes.

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Creating all nodes in a loop

Recreate the nodes inside your loop:

var tablearea = document.getElementById('tablearea'),
    table = document.createElement('table');

for (var i = 1; i < 4; i++) {
    var tr = document.createElement('tr');

    tr.appendChild( document.createElement('td') );
    tr.appendChild( document.createElement('td') );

    tr.cells[0].appendChild( document.createTextNode('Text1') )
    tr.cells[1].appendChild( document.createTextNode('Text2') );

    table.appendChild(tr);
}

tablearea.appendChild(table);

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Creating then cloning in a loop

Create them beforehand, and clone them inside the loop:

var tablearea = document.getElementById('tablearea'),
    table = document.createElement('table'),
    tr = document.createElement('tr');

tr.appendChild( document.createElement('td') );
tr.appendChild( document.createElement('td') );

tr.cells[0].appendChild( document.createTextNode('Text1') )
tr.cells[1].appendChild( document.createTextNode('Text2') );

for (var i = 1; i < 4; i++) {
    table.appendChild(tr.cloneNode( true ));
}

tablearea.appendChild(table);

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Table factory with text string

Make a table factory:

function populateTable(table, rows, cells, content) {
    if (!table) table = document.createElement('table');
    for (var i = 0; i < rows; ++i) {
        var row = document.createElement('tr');
        for (var j = 0; j < cells; ++j) {
            row.appendChild(document.createElement('td'));
            row.cells[j].appendChild(document.createTextNode(content + (j + 1)));
        }
        table.appendChild(row);
    }
    return table;
}

And use it like this:

document.getElementById('tablearea')
        .appendChild( populateTable(null, 3, 2, "Text") );

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Table factory with text string or callback

The factory could easily be modified to accept a function as well for the fourth argument in order to populate the content of each cell in a more dynamic manner.

function populateTable(table, rows, cells, content) {
    var is_func = (typeof content === 'function');
    if (!table) table = document.createElement('table');
    for (var i = 0; i < rows; ++i) {
        var row = document.createElement('tr');
        for (var j = 0; j < cells; ++j) {
            row.appendChild(document.createElement('td'));
            var text = !is_func ? (content + '') : content(table, i, j);
            row.cells[j].appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
        }
        table.appendChild(row);
    }
    return table;
}

Used like this:

document.getElementById('tablearea')
        .appendChild(populateTable(null, 3, 2, function(t, r, c) {
                        return ' row: ' + r + ', cell: ' + c;
                     })
        );

Answer 3

You can create a dynamic table rows as below:

var tbl = document.createElement('table');
tbl.style.width = '100%';

for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {

        tr = document.createElement('tr');

        var td1 = document.createElement('td');
        var td2 = document.createElement('td');
        var td3 = document.createElement('td');

        ::::: // As many <td> you want

        td1.appendChild(document.createTextNode());
        td2.appendChild(document.createTextNode());
        td3.appendChild(document.createTextNode();

        tr.appendChild(td1);
        tr.appendChild(td2);
        tr.appendChild(td3);

        tbl.appendChild(tr);
}

Answer 4

You need to create new TextNodes as well as td nodes for each column, not reuse them among all of the columns as your code is doing.

Edit: Revise your code like so:

for (var i = 1; i < 4; i++)
{
   tr[i] = document.createElement('tr');   
      var td1 = document.createElement('td');
      var td2 = document.createElement('td');
      td1.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Text1'));
      td2.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Text2'));
      tr[i].appendChild(td1);
      tr[i].appendChild(td2);
  table.appendChild(tr[i]);
}

Answer 5

<title>Registration Form</title>
<script>
    var table;

    function check() {
        debugger;
        var name = document.myForm.name.value;
        if (name == "" || name == null) {
            document.getElementById("span1").innerHTML = "Please enter the Name";
            document.myform.name.focus();
            document.getElementById("name").style.border = "2px solid red";
            return false;
        }
        else {
            document.getElementById("span1").innerHTML = "";
            document.getElementById("name").style.border = "2px solid green";
        }

        var age = document.myForm.age.value;
        var ageFormat = /^(([1][8-9])|([2-5][0-9])|(6[0]))$/gm;

        if (age == "" || age == null) {
            document.getElementById("span2").innerHTML = "Please provide Age";
            document.myForm.age.focus();
            document.getElementById("age").style.border = "2px solid red";
            return false;
        }
        else if (!ageFormat.test(age)) {
            document.getElementById("span2").innerHTML = "Age can't be leass than 18 and greater than 60";
            document.myForm.age.focus();
            document.getElementById("age").style.border = "2px solid red";
            return false;
        }
        else {
            document.getElementById("span2").innerHTML = "";
            document.getElementById("age").style.border = "2px solid green";
        }

        var password = document.myForm.password.value;
        if (document.myForm.password.length < 6) {
            alert("Error: Password must contain at least six characters!");
            document.myForm.password.focus();
            document.getElementById("password").style.border = "2px solid red";
            return false;
        }
        re = /[0-9]/g;
        if (!re.test(password)) {
            alert("Error: password must contain at least one number (0-9)!");
            document.myForm.password.focus();
            document.getElementById("password").style.border = "2px solid red";
            return false;
        }
        re = /[a-z]/g;
        if (!re.test(password)) {
            alert("Error: password must contain at least one lowercase letter (a-z)!");
            document.myForm.password.focus();
            document.getElementById("password").style.border = "2px solid red";
            return false;
        }
        re = /[A-Z]/g;
        if (!re.test(password)) {
            alert("Error: password must contain at least one uppercase letter (A-Z)!");
            document.myForm.password.focus();
            document.getElementById("password").style.border = "2px solid red";
            return false;
        }
        re = /[$&+,:;=?@#|'<>.^*()%!-]/g;
        if (!re.test(password)) {
            alert("Error: password must contain at least one special character!");
            document.myForm.password.focus();
            document.getElementById("password").style.border = "2px solid red";
            return false;
        }
        else {
            document.getElementById("span3").innerHTML = "";
            document.getElementById("password").style.border = "2px solid green";

        }

        if (document.getElementById("data") == null)
            createTable();
        else {
            appendRow();
        }
        return true;
    }






    function createTable() {

        var myTableDiv = document.getElementById("myTable");  //indiv
        table = document.createElement("TABLE");   //TABLE??
        table.setAttribute("id", "data");
        table.border = '1';
        myTableDiv.appendChild(table);  //appendChild() insert it in the document (table --> myTableDiv)
        debugger;

        var header = table.createTHead();

        var th0 = table.tHead.appendChild(document.createElement("th"));
        th0.innerHTML = "Name";
        var th1 = table.tHead.appendChild(document.createElement("th"));
        th1.innerHTML = "Age";


        appendRow();

    }

    function appendRow() {
        var name = document.myForm.name.value;
        var age = document.myForm.age.value;


        var rowCount = table.rows.length;
        var row = table.insertRow(rowCount);

        row.insertCell(0).innerHTML = name;
        row.insertCell(1).innerHTML = age;



        clearForm();


    }


    function clearForm() {
        debugger;

        document.myForm.name.value = "";
        document.myForm.password.value = "";
        document.myForm.age.value = "";



    }
    function restrictCharacters(evt) {

        evt = (evt) ? evt : window.event;
        var charCode = (evt.which) ? evt.which : evt.keyCode;
        if (((charCode >= '65') && (charCode <= '90')) || ((charCode >= '97') && (charCode <= '122')) || (charCode == '32')) {
            return true;
        }
        else {
            return false;
        }
    }

</script>



<div>
    <form name="myForm">

        <table id="tableid">

            <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <td>
                    <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" id="name" onkeypress="return restrictCharacters(event);" /></td>
                <td><span id="span1"></span></td>
            </tr>

            <tr>
                <th>Age</th>

                <td>
                    <input type="text" onkeypress="return event.charCode === 0 || /\d/.test(String.fromCharCode(event.charCode));" placeholder="Age"
                        name="age" id="age" /></td>
                <td><span id="span2"></span></td>
            </tr>

            <tr>
                <th>Password</th>
                <td>
                    <input type="password" name="password" id="password" placeholder="Password" /></td>
                <td><span id="span3"></span></td>
            </tr>


            <tr>
                <td></td>
                <td>
                    <input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="check();" /></td>
                <td>
                    <input type="reset" name="Reset" /></td>
            </tr>

        </table>
    </form>

    <div id="myTable">
    </div>

</div>

Answer 6

In My example call add function from button click event and then get value from form control's and call function generateTable.
In generateTable Function check first Table is Generaed or not. If table is undefined then call generateHeader Funtion and Generate Header and then call addToRow function for adding new row in table.

<input type="button" class="custom-rounded-bttn bttn-save" value="Add" id="btnAdd" onclick="add()">


<div class="row">
    <div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
        <div class="dataGridForItem">
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

//Call Function From Button click Event

var counts = 1;
function add(){ 
    var Weightage = $('#Weightage').val();
    var ItemName = $('#ItemName option:selected').text();  
    var ItemNamenum = $('#ItemName').val();
    generateTable(Weightage,ItemName,ItemNamenum);
     $('#Weightage').val('');
     $('#ItemName').val(-1);
     return true;
 } 


function generateTable(Weightage,ItemName,ItemNamenum){
    var tableHtml = '';
    if($("#rDataTable").html() == undefined){
        tableHtml = generateHeader();
    }else{
        tableHtml = $("#rDataTable");
    } 
    var temp = $("<div/>");
    var row = addToRow(Weightage,ItemName,ItemNamenum);
    $(temp).append($(row));
    $("#dataGridForItem").html($(tableHtml).append($(temp).html()));
}


//Generate Header


function generateHeader(){
        var html = "<table id='rDataTable' class='table table-striped'>";
        html+="<tr class=''>";
        html+="<td class='tb-heading ui-state-default'>"+'Sr.No'+"</td>";
        html+="<td class='tb-heading ui-state-default'>"+'Item Name'+"</td>";
        html+="<td class='tb-heading ui-state-default'>"+'Weightage'+"</td>";
        html+="</tr></table>";
        return html; 
}

//Add New Row


function addToRow(Weightage,ItemName,ItemNamenum){
    var html="<tr class='trObj'>";
    html+="<td>"+counts+"</td>";
    html+="<td>"+ItemName+"</td>";
    html+="<td>"+Weightage+"</td>";
    html+="</tr>";
    counts++;
    return html;
}