Question

I’m trying to simply have a table appear inside a <td> element of an outer table. This code:

<table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
    <td>
        <table border="0" class="timesList">
            <tbody>
                <% @time_array.each do |time| %>
                    <tr><%= time %></tr>
                <% end %>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </td>
</tr>

However, when erb renders the html for this page, I get:

<table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
    <td>
                 9:0010:00:11:0012:00
        <table border="0" class="timesList">
                            <tr></tr>
                            <tr></tr>
                            <tr></tr>
                            <tr></tr>
        </table>
    </td>
</tr>

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? I am just missing something blatantly obvious? Thanks!

Answer 1

I think it’s because the <td></td> are missing

<tr><td><%= time %></td></tr>

Your browser failed to parse the table and put the unexpected text “9:0010:00:11:0012:00” outside the table when rendering the source.