Giving a td element an id

JavaScript
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I have a snippet of code that draws a table 10 rows by 10 columns then calls it “thisTable”.

Now looking to use JS to give an id to a particular td in the table, but not having any joy so far.
Thought this would work

var  tbl = document.getElementById("thisTable");
  tbl.rows[2].cells.item(2).setAttribute("name","thiscell");

But no joy. No doubt something simple wrong but can’t see it. TIA

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Your code is setting the attribute name instead of id.

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Oh FFS. Of course. Thanks.

Having changed it though I’m getting “Uncaught TypeError: tbl.getElementById is not a function”. Why would that be?

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Got it! Should be document.getElementById and not the table. In case anyone else stumbles across this.

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Good job figuring it out! Happy coding.

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