Convert JSON array to an HTML table in jQuery

Question

Is there a really easy way I can take an array of JSON objects and turn it into an HTML table, excluding a few fields? Or am I going to have to do this manually?

Answer 1

Pure HTML way, not vulnerable like the others AFAIK:

// Function to create a table as a child of el.
// data must be an array of arrays (outer array is rows).
function tableCreate(el, data)
{
    var tbl  = document.createElement("table");
    tbl.style.width  = "70%";

    for (var i = 0; i < data.length; ++i)
    {
        var tr = tbl.insertRow();
        for(var j = 0; j < data[i].length; ++j)
        {
            var td = tr.insertCell();
            td.appendChild(document.createTextNode(data[i][j].toString()));
        }
    }
    el.appendChild(tbl);
}

Example usage:

$.post("/whatever", { somedata: "test" }, null, "json")
.done(function(data) {
    rows = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < data.Results.length; ++i)
    {
        cells = [];
        cells.push(data.Results[i].A);
        cells.push(data.Results[i].B);
        rows.push(cells);
    }
    tableCreate($("#results")[0], rows);
});