DevBlog: Daniel

I just wasted two hours of my life trying to find out why a table I'd build up using DOM methods wasn't displaying in IE. I was building a table like this: var cell = document.createElement('td'); var row = document.createElement('tr'); var table = document.createElement('table'); cell.appendChild( document.createTextNode('test') ); row.appendChild(cell); table.appendChild(row); document.getElementById('placeForTable').appendChild(table);..but my table wasn't showing in IE (Firefox was fine). I could alert(node.innerHTML); and see my table source, and unbelieveably, if I did a node.innerHTML = node.innerHTML; my table would show up (but any events were lost). Well it turns out that if you don't explicitly add a tbody element, IE won't show your table. I found that out here. Grr!