benf wrote: What i didnt

decibel.places — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:28:44 +0000

benf wrote:

What i didnt realise is that IE needs a tbody in the table otherwise it will show nothing!

Yet another good argument against using tables for layout (unless you are presenting tabular data)

I would say that innerHTML (remember the capital L!) is a good choice for dynamic techniques after the page loads, but constructing the elements with JS or standard HTML is better at the time of the page rendering.

Note also that assigning the innerHTML after the page loads could result in a delay in displaying the content, depending on the amount of code being executed.

Yes looks like it?? Anyway

benf — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:33:34 +0000

Yes looks like it?? Anyway got this to work using createElement. What i didnt realise is that IE needs a tbody in the table otherwise it will show nothing!

benf wrote: Hi Ben Been

greg — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:38:00 +0000

benf wrote:

Hi Ben

Been working too hard?

Hi Ben, What i have done

benf — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:32:33 +0000

Hi Ben,

What i have done above is just for demonstration purposes. I have many more rows and more text and images to insert.

Are there any compatibility problems with innerHTMl as apposed to createElement or vise verser?

Hi Ben, I depends on your

decibel.places — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:42:41 +0000

Hi Ben,

I depends on your situation.

Using the innerHTML property is handy for changing the content of an element on load or dynamically - but it assumes that the element has been created with HTML; the table always exists in the document.

(note: your code div.innerHTMl is not well-formed: the "L" should be capitalized, and this code will only work if you add an id to a div: <div id="div"></div> - but I would not recommend using "div" for the id... typically the innerHTML property is accessed as follows: document.getElementById('mydiv').innerHTML = "<table><tr><td>this is innerHTML</td></tr></table>";)

Creating the elements and appending them is a good method to use when the table may or may not exist depending on some programmatic condition, so it is not even created unless used. I think you still need to assign the content of the cell with the innerHTML property...

Another question is why are you creating a one row one column table within a div? You can just put your text in the div...