Help with DomHelper & Tables

[tony.summerville]

I'm using the DomHelper to create new dom nodes, which seems to work fine for everything except tables. Normally, I would create a table node, then a table body node, then create each td nodes which append to the right tr nodes, which append back to the table body node. I guess the builder returns a table node no matter if you pass in a "table", "tablebody" or "tr" tag.. or at least thats the way it seems...

Is there a correct way to build tables using your domBuilder? I'm guessing I could use a template but I don't understand how to append different cells and rows to the table based on a data set..

Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks.

[jack.slocum]

Tables are a pain because of IE. If you aren't using the templating, something as simple as:

var dh = YAHOO.ext.DomHelper;
dh.useDom = true;

// make your tables

dh.useDom = false;

may work. It's on the list to rebuild the IE table hack for 0.40 to support tables.