Tables and the DOM

I've been having some problems with Tables and the DOM and
JavaScript.

Anyway, I have a table tag in my page, and because of the general nature
of the table (it contains 64 squares (8X8, think chess)), and I've been trying to
do something like this:


for (i=0; i<8; i++) {
var tagA = document.createElement ("tr")//it's not this
document.getElementById("idname").firstChild.appendChild(tagA)
for (ii=0; ii<8; ii++) {//it's not this
var tagB = document.creatElement ("td")
tagB.setAttribute ("@name", @value) //it's not this
document.getElementById("idname").firstChild.childNodes[i].appendChild(tagB)
}
}
//idname is the id of the table tag, and firstChild is it's only child
//with a tag name TBODY, it seems to get Appended by itself, and
//it always encases the contents of the table
//the @isn't actually in the code, I'm just using it as a abbreviation

It's not the code, because no matter how I change it, it always says:
"Exception Occurred" or "Unknown Runtime Error",
depending on whether I tried to set the attribute "innerHTML", or append a Node.

It seems to me, that the table is treated as a seperate entity all to itself.

So my question#1 is:
Is the TABLE element write protected? Because the only way I've ever been able
to modify one is by first removing it and using document.write to write a new one out :(

Guardian

Turns out that the createElement Method worked, but when I
tried using it the first time round, I forgot about the TBODY ?tag?.
Still, the innerHTML couldn't be set inside the TBODY tag, only
within it's children... so the innerHTML still seems a little quirky,
guess I'll just stick with the createElement method...

Sorry for the disturbance.

Guardian

If you're wanting to access table contents by row and column more directly, check the links I posted on the other thread - http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6305