Testing jQuery.after
HTML
<table>
<tbody><tr id="itemsHeader"><th>This is a header</th></tr><tr><td>bub</td></tr></tbody>
</table>
CSS
table {
width: 70%;
margin: auto;
margin-top: 5px;
}
table, td, th {
border: black solid 1px;
padding: 2px;
}
th {
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
}
JavaScript
$('#itemsHeader').after("<tr><td>a</td></tr>");