HTML DOM
// This is a DOM interface with JAVASCRIPT by using JSON data
// Creating Table with DOM objects
var myData = [{user: "James", address: "123 Keele St. Toronto, ON.", email:"[email protected]"},
{user: "Mary", address: "92 Appleby Ave. Hamilton, ON.", email:"[email protected]"},
{user: "Paul", address: "70 The Pond Rd. North Youk, ON.", email:"[email protected]"},
{user: "Catherine", address: "1121 New St. Burlington, ON.", email:"[email protected]"}];
window.onload = function() {
document.querySelector("#button1").onclick = generateTable;
}
function generateTable(){
// get the reference for the body
var tbl = document.querySelector("#outputTable");
// revove existing Body element
var tblExistingBody = tbl.querySelector("tbody");
if (tblExistingBody) tbl.removeChild(tblExistingBody);
// creates a <tbody> element
var tblBody = document.createElement("tbody");
// creating all table rows
for (var i = 0; i < myData.length; i++) {
// creates a table row
var row = document.createElement("tr");
// Create a <td> element and put them at the end of the table row
row.appendChild(getTdElement(myData[i].user));
row.appendChild(getTdElement(myData[i].address));
row.appendChild(getTdLinkElement(myData[i].email, myData[i].email));
// add the row to the end of the table body
tblBody.appendChild(row);
}
// put the <tbody> in the <table>
tbl.appendChild(tblBody);
}
// Create a <td> element and a text
function getTdElement(text) {
var cell = document.createElement("td");
var cellText = document.createTextNode(text);
cell.appendChild(cellText);
return cell;
}
// Create a <td> element with a hyperlink
function getTdLinkElement(text, href) {
var anchor = document.createElement("a");
anchor.setAttribute("href", "mailto:"+href);
var anchorText = document.createTextNode(text);
anchor.appendChild(anchorText);
var cell = document.createElement("td");
cell.appendChild(anchor);
return cell;
}