Question

I’m trying to insert some dynamically generated html (via PHP) into a table, but I’m embarrassingly horrible at using JQuery functions to traverse the DOM.

Here’s my table:

<table id = "tasks_table">
        <tr>
            <th>Date</th>
            <th>Hours</th>
            <th>Task</th>
            <th></th>
        </tr>
        <tr id = "form">
            <form action="index.php" method="POST" id="task_form">
                <td><input type="text" id="deadline_text" name="deadline_text"/></td>
                <td><input type="text" id="duration_text" name="duration_text"/></td>
                <td><input type="text" id="description_text" name="description_text"/></td>
                <td><input type="submit" value="Add Task" id="task_submit"/></button></td>
            </form>
        </tr>

        <?php
            //TaskDB::generateTaskTable();
        ?>
        </table>

…And the code is going where the PHPcomment is–after the second row. I’ve tried using :nth-child and a few others without success. Any help would be much appreciated!

Jquery:

<script>
        $(document).ready(function(){
            $('#task_submit').on('click', function(e){
                $.post('index.php', $("#task_form").serialize(), function(data){

                    $(' ').append(data);
                    console.log(data);
                });
                e.preventDefault();
            });
        });
    </script>

Answer 1

Try the after or insertAfter methods, which are documented with examples here, e.g.

$(php_code).insertAfter('#form')

where php_code is the code you want to insert.