IE9 table has random rows which are offset at random columns

Question

I have a page of categories, when the user clicks one, the items under that category are loaded via a jQuery Ajax call, in a table, and stuck into an element just below the

Answer 1

The problem seems to be with white spacing.

I found this answer on http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/iewebdevelopment/thread/28d78780-c95c-4c35-9695-237ebb912d90

Replace the html you get from the AJAX call using a regular expression like this.

var expr = new RegExp('>[ \t\r\n\v\f]*<', 'g');
tableHtml = tableHtml.replace(expr, '><');