by the way - tables are for laying out tabular data, an unordered list with a list-style-type:none; is a much better bet for horizontal navigation.
it'll work in basically the same way.... <ul id="nav"> <li>first</li> <li>second</li> <li>third</li> <li>etc.</li> </ul> On Apr 8, 11:29 am, "ryan.j" <ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com> wrote: > to add a new column append a TD to each TR (or change the colspan of a > TD in each row you didn't modify). > > you were doing this > > <tr><td id="col">first<td>second</td></td></tr> > > when you probably want to be doing something like... > > <tr id="row_1"><td>first</td><td>second</td></tr> > > $('tr#row_1').append('<td>second</td>');