The approach you suggest is not guaranteed to give you the result you're looking for - what if you had a tbody
for example:
<table id="myTable">
<tbody>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
You would end up with the following:
<table id="myTable">
<tbody>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
</tbody>
<tr>...</tr>
</table>
I would therefore recommend this approach instead:
$('#myTable tr:last').after('<tr>...</tr><tr>...</tr>');
You can include anything within the after()
method as long as it's valid HTML, including multiple rows as per the example above.
Update: Revisiting this answer following recent activity with this question. eyelidlessness makes a good comment that there will always be a tbody
in the DOM; this is true, but only if there is at least one row. If you have no rows, there will be no tbody
unless you have specified one yourself.
DaRKoN_ suggests appending to the tbody
rather than adding content after the last tr
. This gets around the issue of having no rows, but still isn't bulletproof as you could theoretically have multiple tbody
elements and the row would get added to each of them.
Weighing everything up, I'm not sure there is a single one-line solution that accounts for every single possible scenario. You will need to make sure the jQuery code tallies with your markup.
I think the safest solution is probably to ensure your table
always includes at least one tbody
in your markup, even if it has no rows. On this basis, you can use the following which will work however many rows you have (and also account for multiple tbody
elements):
$('#myTable > tbody:last-child').append('<tr>...</tr><tr>...</tr>');
The correct approach is to use element.getBoundingClientRect()
:
var rect = element.getBoundingClientRect();
console.log(rect.top, rect.right, rect.bottom, rect.left);
Internet Explorer has supported this since as long as you are likely to care about and it was finally standardized in CSSOM Views. All other browsers adopted it a long time ago.
Some browsers also return height and width properties, though this is non-standard. If you're worried about older browser compatibility, check this answer's revisions for an optimised degrading implementation.
The values returned by element.getBoundingClientRect()
are relative to the viewport. If you need it relative to another element, simply subtract one rectangle from the other:
var bodyRect = document.body.getBoundingClientRect(),
elemRect = element.getBoundingClientRect(),
offset = elemRect.top - bodyRect.top;
alert('Element is ' + offset + ' vertical pixels from <body>');
Best Answer
http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/xu2AH/9/
.table-striped class
... and cleaner jQuery:
Update:
.live()
has since been deprecated. Use.on()
.Fixed: http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/xu2AH/127/