Why is document.getElementById('tableId')[removed] not working in IE8?

Question

I modify document.getElementById(\'\').innerHTML with Java Script in a page. It\'s working fine in Firefox, but not IE8. Please see below for more details:

Answer 1

I believe IE behaves strangely when you play with the innerHTML of tr elements. I would select the row with getElementById, and then select the td and alter that one's innerHTML:

document.getElementById('abc').firstChild.innerHTML = 'abc';

(Though you have to be careful with this: often the whitespace between the tr and the td will be considered a valid node)

There's a whole heap of special functions for working with tables in the DOM

var tblBody = document.getElementById(tblId).tBodies[0];
var newRow = tblBody.insertRow(-1);
var newCell0 = newRow.insertCell(0);

See all the functions here: http://www.mredkj.com/tutorials/tablebasics1.html