JS table generator with buttons

Question

I found this answer on the website and used it as a base for my own code.

I was trying to get the buttons to render within the table but it just came up as text and n

Answer 1

You need to create a button node and then append it.

function tableCreate() {
  var body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];

  var tbl = document.createElement("table");
  var tblBody = document.createElement("tbody");

  for (var j = 0; j <= 10; j++) {
    var row = document.createElement("tr");

    for (var i = 0; i <10; i++) {
      var cell = document.createElement("td");
      var button document.createElement("button");
      button.innerHTML = j +"-"+i;
      cell.appendChild(button);
      row.appendChild(cell);
    }
    tblBody.appendChild(row);
  }
  tbl.appendChild(tblBody);
  body.appendChild(tbl);
  tbl.setAttribute("border", "2");
}

function cell_id(x,y){
  msg('x:'+x+ ' y:'+y)
}

Answer 2

createTextNode() creates a text node, as the name says. If you have markup in it, it will be shown literally.

You should have created a button node, and set its text to the variables like this example below.

    for (var i = 0; i <10; i++) {
      var cell = document.createElement("td");
      var btn = document.createElement("button");
      btn.innerText = j + "-" + i;
      cell.appendChild(btn);
      row.appendChild(cell);
    }

Answer 3

Use document.createElement('button') for creating buttons. You are just creating textNodes using createTextNode().