When creating a table dynamically and inserting table rows with table data cells and text nodes and add it to the document tree, it is not displayed at all when you don't include a <tbody> tag. W3C DOM2 methods are used.
(ppknote: Test case does not work in Safari)
Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Gunnar Vestergaard.
Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7, Explorer Mac | Reported on 26 September 2005.
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1 Posted by Charles Fahey on 21 June 2006 | Permalink
Just an FYI - Having encountered this bug myself, I performed an innerHTML dump of an entire table after appending a new row. It appears that if you don't create the tbody tag yourself, IE6 creates it for you - but doesn't close it. The result is a table with an open tbody tag at the top. I suspect this is why it doesn't display.