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HTML
<table border=1 width=200>
<tr>
<td id="xxx">
td 1
</td>
<tr>
<td>
td 2
</td>
</table>
<input type="button" id="btn" value="click" />
JavaScript
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery("input#btn").click(function(){
jQuery("#xxx").after("<td id=\"xxy\">td 3 </td>");
jQuery("#xxx").remove();
})
})