building a html table, ID

[jite eghagha]

Th script below builds a table, but it doesn't give the table an id.

I need the DOM method to _setElementId(); to achieve

<table ID="tableBarSource>...... </table>

    function buildTable() {
        // get the reference for the body
        var mybody = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
 
        // creates <table> and <tbody> elements
        mytable  = document.createElement("table");
        
        mytablebody = document.createElement("tbody");
 
        // creating all cells
        for(var j = 0; j < 2; j++) {
            // creates a <tr> element
            mycurrent_row = document.createElement("tr");
 
            for(var i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
                // creates a <td> element
                mycurrent_cell = document.createElement("td");
                // creates a Text Node
                currenttext = document.createTextNode("cell is row " + j + ", column " + i);
                // appends the Text Node we created into the cell <td>
                mycurrent_cell.appendChild(currenttext);
                // appends the cell <td> into the row <tr>
                mycurrent_row.appendChild(mycurrent_cell);
            }
            // appends the row <tr> into <tbody>
            mytablebody.appendChild(mycurrent_row);
        }    

[ October 30, 2008: Message edited by: jite eghagha ]
[ October 30, 2008: Message edited by: jite eghagha ]

[Eric Pascarello]

If you want to add an id, than add an id to your table element such as:

mytablebody.id = "myId";