[SOLVED] Attach a table to another table with table object model

proggR · April 18, 2009

I'm trying to build an AJAX based calender but I'm getting stuck before I even get to the harder parts.

I have a year table for the months to be inserted in (it isn't using TOM yet) and I have another set of tables created with TOM for the days in the month. The days part is working but they are printed outside of the year table. I don't know how to describe exactly whats happening so I'm going to paste the code so you can see where I'm at.

Just as a warning, this code is a mess right now because I'm revamping an older project I did that had almost everything hardcoded except the parts I've switched to using the TOM. Sorry to be a pain and just dump code on here but I'm not sure how to describe whats happening.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">

<head>

<!--  
    Name:
    Description:  
-->

<script type="text/javascript">
    /* <![CDATA[ */
    var lastDay=1;
    function displayMonth(month){
    var row,end,day=1, ctr=1;
   
    switch (month){
    case "September": case "April": case "June": case "November": 
    end=30;
    break;
    case "February": 
    end=28; 
    break;
    default:
    end=31;}
    
    var oTable = document.createElement("table");
    document.body.appendChild(oTable);
    var oTHead = oTable.createTHead();
    var oTFoot = oTable.createTFoot();
    var oTBody = document.createElement("tbody");
    oTable.appendChild(oTBody);
    var oRow, oCell, i;	
    oTHead.innerHTML = month;
    oRow = oTBody.insertRow(-1);
    alert("made it past declaring the objects");
    
    oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    oCell.innerHTML = "S";
    oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    oCell.innerHTML = "M";   
    oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    oCell.innerHTML = "T";   
    oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    oCell.innerHTML = "W";   
    oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    oCell.innerHTML = "T";   
    oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    oCell.innerHTML = "F";   
    oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    oCell.innerHTML = "S";   


    while(day<end){
    	oRow = oTBody.insertRow(-1);
    	while (ctr<lastDay){
    		oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    		ctr++;
    	}
    	for(ctr=lastDay;ctr<=7;ctr++){
    	oCell = oRow.insertCell(-1);	
    	oCell.innerHTML = day;
    	day++;
    	lastDay=1;
    
    	if (day>end){
    		lastDay=ctr+1;
    		break;
    	}
    
    	}
    
    }
    
}

  function getDate(month,day){
  
  }    
  
  function displayAppt(month, day){
 var hour;
 document.write("<table border='1'><tr><td colspan='2'>"+month+" "+day+", 2009</td></tr>");
   for (hour=8;hour<=18;hour++){
   document.write("<tr><td width='20'>"+hour+":00</td><td></td></tr>");  
   document.write("<tr><td width='20'>"+hour+":30</td><td></td></tr>");
}
document.write("</table>");
}

    
    /* ]]> */        
</script>

<link rel="Stylesheet" href="style.css" />

<title>
Tables and Calendars
</title>

</head>

<body>
<table border='1'>
<tr><td colspan='4'>2009</td><td>Appointments</td></tr>
<tr><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("January");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("February");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("March");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("April");</script></td><td colspan='2' rowspan='3'><script type="text/javascript">displayAppt('January',;</script></td></tr>
<tr><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("May");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("June");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("July");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("August");</script></td></tr>
<tr><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("September");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("October");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("November");</script></td><td><script type="text/javascript">displayMonth("December");</script></td></tr>
</table>
</body>

</html>

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. I'm going to keep toying with it myself as well.

proggR · April 19, 2009

I switched the outer table to use the TOM as well and then used cell.appendChild(innerTable) to place the inner table in the cell. Then in the inner table's function I add return oTable return the table as an object to the outer table. It works now and I've cleaned things up a bit. On to the AJAX part.

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