Insert multiple rows in a cell in HTML Table

Question

I am trying to insert rows within a cell in HTML Table using jquery, I want something like this:

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ID | Sec | Div
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1  | S1  | D1
   | S2  | D2
   | S3  | D3
--------------
2  | S3  | D3
   | S4  | D4
   | S5  | D5
--------------

Here is what I have so far:

function insertRows(this){


var Rows1 = '<tr><td> S1 </td></tr><tr><td> S2 </td></tr><tr><td> S3 </td></tr>'
var Rows2 = '<tr><td> S3 </td></tr><tr><td> S4 </td></tr><tr><td> S5 </td></tr>'

this.srcElement.parentElement.nextSibling.outerHTML = Rows1
this.srcElement.parentElement.nextSibling.nextSibling.outerHTML = Rows2

}

What is does is, it inserts all in the same Row, something like this:

---------------------
ID | Sec     | Div
---------------------
1  | S1S2S3  | D1D2D3
---------------------
2  | S3S4S5  | D3D4D5
---------------------

How can I make this to work?

Answer 1

You Can Fullfill your requirement without using jquery just Paste this Code inside body tag

 <table>
 <tr>
 <td >ID</td>
 <td>SEC</td>
 <td>DIV</td>

 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td rowspan="3">1</td>
 <td>S1</td>
 <td>D1</td>

 </tr>
 <tr>

 <td>S2</td>
<td>D2</td>

</tr>
<tr>

<td>S3</td>
<td>D3</td>

</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">---------------------</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>ID</td>
<td>SEC</td>
<td>DIV</td>

</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3">2</td>
<td>S1</td>
<td>D1</td>

</tr>
<tr>

<td>S2</td>
<td>D2</td>

</tr>
<tr>

<td>S3</td>
<td>D3</td>

</tr>
</table>

here you can find live example http://jsfiddle.net/Anujyadav123/AdQy3/

Answer 2

take a look here Add colspan and rowspan on table on the fly

OR

is it important to add row, if not you are able to add your values into cell

Example:

function showP(){
     txt1 = $($('#myTable').find('TR').find('TD')[1]).html()+'</br>S1'
     txt3 = $($('#myTable').find('TR').find('TD')[3]).html()+'</br>D1'

     $($('#myTable').find('TR').find('TD')[1]).html(txt1 )
     $($('#myTable').find('TR').find('TD')[3]).html(txt3 )
}

Answer 3

.innerHTML is rather broken when dealing with tables, at least under IE.

Your choices are:

1. Restrict the use of .innerHTML to only change the contents of a td element.
2. Use .innerHTML to replace the ENTIRE table structure
3. Use DOM methods to manipulate table rows and table cells.
   https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Traversing_an_HTML_table_with_JavaScript_and_DOM_Interfaces