As the title says, I'm having an issue with IE8 (works in FF and IE9). The following code doesn't produce any errors, and if I substitute div,ul,and li; it works. I did some searching and didn't find anything on (table,tr,td) tags not being supported using document.createElement with IE8. Where am I going wrong?
Here is the code:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>My Page Title</title>
<script>
function init() {
var ele = document.getElementById('content');
var table = document.createElement('table');
var tr = document.createElement('tr');
var td = document.createElement('td');
var txt = document.createTextNode('IE8');
td.appendChild(txt);
tr.appendChild(td);
table.appendChild(tr);
ele.appendChild(table);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="init();">
<div id="content"></div>
</body>
</html>
As the title says, I'm having an issue with IE8 (works in FF and IE9). The following code doesn't produce any errors, and if I substitute div,ul,and li; it works. I did some searching and didn't find anything on (table,tr,td) tags not being supported using document.createElement with IE8. Where am I going wrong?
Here is the code:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>My Page Title</title>
<script>
function init() {
var ele = document.getElementById('content');
var table = document.createElement('table');
var tr = document.createElement('tr');
var td = document.createElement('td');
var txt = document.createTextNode('IE8');
td.appendChild(txt);
tr.appendChild(td);
table.appendChild(tr);
ele.appendChild(table);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="init();">
<div id="content"></div>
</body>
</html>
- 1 Using IE10 and it seems to work in IE8, IE9, and IE10 mode. It does not work in IE7 mode though. – Michael Todd Commented Apr 8, 2013 at 22:09
- @MichaelTodd, The IE8 Document Mode was set to Quirks. Switching to IE8 Standards did the trick. Thanks. – fbynite Commented Apr 8, 2013 at 22:27
3 Answers
Reset to default 3You can't use only createElement() function to create table, tr, td to create whole table element.
Instead you have to use insertRow(), insertCell() function of table Object
For Reference check this:
http://viralpatel/blogs/dynamically-add-remove-rows-in-html-table-using-javascript/
Edit:
Even I was thinking in the same way for IE issues ,
Buy I found that actually for createElement() to work in IE7 you have to create tbody object and append that to the table object and tr to that tbody object
tb = document.createElement("tbody")
var tbody = document.createElement('tbody');
table.appendChild(tbody);
var table_row = document.createElement('tr');
tbody.appendChild(table_row)//
just add <!DOCTYPE html> in markup.
In IE7 and above default rendering without DOCTYPE is Quirks mode (IE5).
try this:
var ele = document.getElementById('content');
var table = document.createElement('table');
ele.appendChild(table);
var tr = document.createElement('tr');
table.appendChild(tr);
var td = document.createElement('td');
tr.appendChild(td);
var txt = document.createTextNode('IE8');
td.appendChild(txt);