Question

I have created a table using a for loop in my code and have various variables in multiple arrays. I want to be able to put the values from the array individually into each table cell going down in a column. For code I have this:

function tableCreate() {
 for (rownum = 1; rownum <= 7; rownum++) {
     document.write("<tr>");
     for (colnum = 1; colnum <= 7; colnum++) {  
     if (rownum == 1 + colnum == 1) {
         document.write("<td>" + id[0] + "</td>");
     }
     }
     document.write("</tr>");
 }
}

var id = new Array("1022", "1112", "1230", "554", "1355", "1600");
var title = new Array("Prof.", "Prof.", "Prof.", "Prof.", "Asst. Prof.", "Asst. Prof.");
var name = new Array("Catherine Adler", "Michael Li", "Maria Sanchez", "Robert Hope", "Wayne Li", "Kate Howard");
var position = new Array("Department Chair", "Asst. Chair", "TA Supervisor");
var er = new Array(2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3);
var yoe = new Array(18, 12, 10, 23, 8, 5);
var cs = new Array(85000, 70000, 62000, 55000, 50000, 45000);

The above code is all part of an external JavaScript document. I tryed using if statements to produce what I wanted but that failed. Now I’m lost and some help would be appreciated. To reitterate, I want to get say this array: var id = new Array(“1022”, “1112”, “1230”, “554”, “1355”, “1600”);

into a table column and have each variable in that array take a cell in that column.

Answer 1

Not so clear but I think what you want is this:

function tableCreate() {
 for (rownum = 1; rownum <= 7; rownum++) {
     document.write("<tr>");
     for (colnum = 1; colnum <= 7; colnum++) {  
       if (colnum == 1) {
         document.write("<td>" + id[(colnum-1)] + "</td>");
       }
     }
     document.write("</tr>");
 }
}

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I expect this is really what you want:

// constants
var colCount=7;
var rowCount=7;

// input data
var id = new Array("1022", "1112", "1230", "554", "1355", "1600");
var title = new Array("Prof.", "Prof.", "Prof.", "Prof.", "Asst. Prof.", "Asst. Prof.");
var name = new Array("Catherine Adler", "Michael Li", "Maria Sanchez", "Robert Hope", "Wayne Li", "Kate Howard");
var position = new Array("Department Chair", "Asst. Chair", "TA Supervisor");
var er = new Array(2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3);
var yoe = new Array(18, 12, 10, 23, 8, 5);
var cs = new Array(85000, 70000, 62000, 55000, 50000, 45000);

// make a special column.
var complicatedName;
for(index = 0; index < rowCount;index++)
{
   complicatedName[index] = title[index]+' '+name[index]+' - '+position[index];
}
colCount = colCount - 2

// create the column array.
var collist = [id,complicatedName,er,yoe,cs];

// make the table.
function tableCreate() {
 for (rownum = 1; rownum <= rowCount; rownum++) {
     document.write("<tr>");
     for (colnum = 1; colnum <= colCount; colnum++) {  
         document.write("<td>" + (collist[(colnum-1)])[(rownum-1)] + "</td>");
     }
     document.write("</tr>");
 }
}