Add <td> elements into <tr> element dynamically using jquery and js

Question

I have table with few tr elements and i want to add a new td for the first tr element dynamically in my js.

Table before adding td element.

<table>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>A</td>
        <tr>
        <tr>
            <td>D</td>
        <tr>
    <tbody>
<table>

I want a table like this

<table>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>A</td>
            <td>B</td> //Newly addded element
        <tr>
        <tr>
            <td>D</td>
        <tr>
    <tbody>
<table>

I tried looping through tr elements and adding a new td element using jquery in my js file. Like this:

$('table').each((index,tr)=>{
    if(index === 0){
        tr.append("<td>B</td>");
    }
});

But no lock. [Object object] is being rendered in DOM in the place where I added new td. Something like this:

Please suggest me solution to add new td in tr's dynamically. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You don't need a loop for this. There are lots of selectors/methods you can use to target the first td of the first tr .

Any of these will work given the HTML structure in your question:

$('table td:first').after('<td>B</td>');

$('<td>B</td>').insertAfter('table td:first');

$('table tr:first').append('<td>B</td>');

$('<td>B</td>').appendTo('table tr:first');

I'm certain there's other ways, but this gives you an idea of the approach to take.

Answer 2

Consider the following example.

 $(function() { function addCell(content, target) { if(content == undefined){ content = ""; } return $("<td>").html(content).appendTo(target); } addCell("B", $("table tbody tr:eq(0)")); });

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>A</td> </tr> <tr> <td>D</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

I suspect you will have a button or other opportunities to add content. Creating a small function allows for this to be a bit easier. This function accepts the Content, what you want in the Cell, and the Target.

The last part of it will be to provide a Target. This can be an HTML Element or a jQuery Object. I provided a jQuery Object with the Selector for the TABLE > TBODY > TR (that is equal to Index 0).

You can also use it in a loop:

$("tbody tr").each(function(i, el){
  if($("td:eq(0)", el).text() == "A"){
    var b = addCell("B", el);
    b.addClass("dynamic");
  }
});

Answer 3

I try this in pure js
This is my code

HTML:-

<table>
  <tbody>
      <tr id="myTr">
          <td>A</td>
      <tr>
      <tr>
          <td>D</td>
      <tr>
  <tbody>
<table>

Javascript:-

let myTr = document.getElementById("myTr");
let data = ['B','C'];

data.forEach(item => {
  let td = document.createElement("TD");
  td.innerHTML = item;
  myTr.appendChild(td);
});