Thanks!

Wow, that was stupid on my part....it works now though, so thank you. There is another part to this, but I want to try to do it on my own first. Thanks again

Here it is:

function showTable() {
   document.write("<table id='contributors'>")
   document.write("<thead>")
   document.write(" <tr>")
   document.write("<th>Date</th><th>Amount</th>")
   document.write("<th>First Name</th><th>Last Name</th>")
   document.write("<th>Address</th>")
   document.write(" </tr>")
   document.write(" </thead>")

   document.write(" <tbody>")

   for var i = 0; i < lastName.length; i++) {
      document.write(" <tr>")
      document.write("<th>" + lastName[i] + "</th>")
      document.write("<th>" + amount[i] + "</th>")
      document.write("<th>" + firstName[i] + "</th>")
      document.write("<th>" + lastName[i] + "</th>")
      document.write("<th>" + street[i] + "</th>")
      document.write("<th>" + city[i] + "</th>")
      document.write("<th>" + state[i] + "</th>")
      document.write("<th>" + zip[i] + "</th>")
      document.write(" </tr>")
   }
   document.write(" </tbody>")
   document.write(" </table>")

}

Thanks for the detailed reply! I had a feeling document.write was an older way of doing things, but I was not sure - I guess my teacher knows that, but he doesn't want to confuse people by going too hardcore or something. I do HTML/CSS freelance work and always try to follow standards as best I can, so I'll keep your advice in mind for JS

One more issue though: I fixed the showTable function, and now to call it my instructions say to insert a script element that runs the showTable() function. This does not work and I see an error message in my Chrome Dev Tools, so something is wrong:

            <figure id="data_list">
            <script type="text/javascript">
               showTable();
            </script>

            </figure>

Any ideas?

Nevermind, I resolved the issue.