LOL - I swear I thought of almost the exact same thing when I went out and took a drive...it's amazing what time away from the computer does...and of course, a little help.
Now I seem to be missing something (yeah, I am new to jQuery...) I still want that table row to fade in...but neither method works: $('#groups').append('<tr id="ohai"><td>hello</td></tr>').fadeIn ("fast"); $('#groups').fadeIn("fast").append('<tr id="ohai"><td>hello</td></ tr>'); On Jul 13, 7:35 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote: > How about just removing the empty <tr></tr> and use something like the > following for your insert row after your AJAX response: > > $("#groups").append('<tr id="group'+data.id+'"><td>....</td></tr>'); > > On Jul 13, 1:00 pm, Nate <nathanle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Also, James, each table row has a unique id. it will be called > > something like id="group34" or id="group35" - no two are the same. > > It's info that is related to the ID of the database. > > > So when my jQuery posts to addgroup.php, it inserts the data into the > > database, and then I use the mysql_inser_id() function to retrieve the > > ID of the entry I just made. I then return that data to the main > > page, and I simply want to stick it below all of the data that was > > generated by PHP. > > > To give you an idea - here is a screen capture of it in action, and > > some of the issues along with it: > > >http://www.nathanledet.com/removingdata_jquery.mov