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**pealo86** · 09:49 AM

It doesn't pop up with an error message, it's just that the table just doesn't appear

Code:

function tableBuild ()
    {
        var container = document.getElementById ('container');
        
        // build head
        var headName = document.createTextNode ('Name');
        var headAge = document.createTextNode ('Age');
        var th1 = document.createElement ('th');
        var th2 = document.createElement ('th');
        var tr = document.createElement ('tr');
        var table = document.createElement ('table');
        
        // append
        th1.appendChild (headName);
        tr.appendChild (th1);
        table.appendChild (tr);
        container.appendChild (table);
        alert (table.nodeName);       
    }
    
window.onload = tableBuild;

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ajaxStudent.js"></script>
</head>

<div id="container">
This is the container
</div>



<body>
</body>
</html>

It works okay in FF (surprisingly). Also, when I alert the nodeName, even IE recgnises it as a table, so I don't know why it isn't displaying it?