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Posted by cassac
cassac
9,628 Points

Populating table with database and attaching element to each <tr>

I want to add functionality to each <tr> tag inside a table. Then use jQuery and when a <tr> element is clicked on/toggled an additional piece of information is shown. Each <tr> is dynamically generated when looping through the entries from the database, so which tag would this new element be appended.

Would this pose a problem as the the content for the additional element would have to someone be passed through jQuery?

Any ideas other methods to achieve this result?

Thanks =)

1 Answer

Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

I'm not sure I completely understand what you're trying to do, but you can use jQuery and Ajax to 'dynamically' get new content from the database, by using something on the server side (PHP, Node.js or whatever) to query and return the results from the database.

Shouldn't be any issues, as long as the content is accessible from the same host/domain. If it's from another domain (or even port or protocol), you might get errors relating to the same-origin policy.