[jQuery] Building a table from an array

[Phil Glatz]

Newbie question - can somebody please provide an example or reference
to some existing code on how to create a table from an array of
javascript data, please?

I have an array of data to populate the table tbody; each element in
the array represents a row, and contains an array of the contents of
each column. There could be additional rows for the theader and
tfooter.

I want a function I can pass a table id and the data array, that would
populate the table. I'd also like ot be able to clear all the rows of
the table, so I could insert different data that may contain fewer
rows.

thanks.