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JavaScript add row dynamically to table

We can add rows to the table by adding a pair of <TR></TR> tags. If we want to add row to a table dynamically then we can also do this with the JavaScript code. In this example we will describe you how to add row dynamically to the table by the program.

To illustrate example, we have first created a HTML page and into this page we have created a table with one row. We have one button "Add Row" also. It calls method addRows() on the click event of button which is defined in the <script></script> i.e in JavaScript.

 function addRows(){
  var TABLE = document.getElementById('tableId');
  var BODY = TABLE.getElementsByTagName('tbody')[0];
  var TR = document.createElement('tr');
  var TD = document.createElement('td');
  TD.innerHTML = 'This is a new row added';
  TR.appendChild (TD);
  BODY.appendChild(TR);
 }

First line of the function takes the table element reference into a variable TABLE. In the second line of code we have created a variable BODY which takes the reference to TABLE's body. In the third and fourth line of code we have created two elements "tr" and "td" and hold their reference into variables TR and TD respectively. After having TR and TD we can add them to the table by using the appendChild() method.

TR.appendChild (TD) appends TD to the table row TR and further it can be added to the table's body BODY.appendChild(TR).

Code :

<html>
<head>
  <title>
     Add row dynamically to table
  </title>
 <script type="JavaScript">
 function addRows(){
  var TABLE = document.getElementById('tableId');
  var BODY = TABLE.getElementsByTagName('tbody')[0];
  var TR = document.createElement('tr');
  var TD = document.createElement('td');
  TD.innerHTML = 'This is a new row added';
  TR.appendChild (TD);
  BODY.appendChild(TR);
 }
 </script>
</head>
<body>
 <div style="background: #cf2255; width:'100%';" align="center">
  <font color="#ffffcc" size="12pt">
	<b>Add new row example</b>
  </font>
 </div>
 <center>
  <div style="background: #ffffcc; width:'100%';" align="center">
   <table id="tableId" border="1" cellpadding="0" 
                       cellspacing="0" width="50%">
      <tr>
         <td width="50%">This is the very first row</td>
      </tr>
   </table>
  <input type="button" onclick="addRows();" value="Add Row" />
 </div>
</center>
</body>
</html>

Output :

Before adding row, the table has its default one row with the <td></td> having text "This is the very first row". Click on "Add Row" button.

As soon as you click on the button "Add Row" it will add a new row to this table with the text in the column as "This is a new row added".

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JavaScript add row dynamically to table

JavaScript add row dynamically to table

JavaScript add row dynamically to table

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