Question: What is the best plain javascript way of inserting X rows into a table in IE.

The table html looks like this:

```
<table><tbody id='tb'><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr></tbody></table>

```

What I need to do, is drop the old body, and insert a new one with 1000 rows. I have my 1000 rows as a javascript string variable.

The problem is that table in IE has no innerHTML function. I've seen lots of hacks to do it, but I want to see your best one. 

Note: using jquery or any other framework does not count.

Answer: 
Here's a great article by the guy who implemented IE's `innerHTML=` on [how he got IE to do `tbody.innerHTML="<tr>..."`](http://www.ericvasilik.com/2006/07/code-karma.html):

> 
> At first, I thought that IE was not
>  capable of performing the redraw for
>  modified tables with innerHTML, but
>  then I remembered that I was
>  responsible for this limitation!
> 
> 
> 

Incidentally the trick he uses is basically how all the frameworks do it for `table`/`tbody` elements.

*Edit*: @mkoryak, your comment tells me you have zero imagination and don't deserve an answer. But I'll humor you anyway. Your points:

> he is not inserting what i need

Wha? He is inserting rows (that he has as an html string) into a `table` element.

> he also uses an extra hidden element

The point of that element was to illustrate that all IE needs is a "context". You could use an element created on the fly instead (`document.createElement('div')`).

> and also the article is old

I'm never helping you again ;)

But seriously, if you want to see how others have implemented it, take a look at the jQuery source for [`jQuery.clean()`](http://dev.jquery.com/browser/trunk/jquery/src/core.js#L890), or Prototype's [`Element._insertionTranslations`](http://www.prototypejs.org/assets/2008/1/25/prototype-1.6.0.2.js).
Do as jQuery does it, eg. add `<table>` and `</table>` around it, insert into document and move the nodes you want to where you want them and ditch the temp-element.