Or do it this way to use ALL jQuery. The each can loop through any data be it DOM elements or an array/object.
var data = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven', 'eight'];
var numCols = 1;
$.each(data, function(i) {
if(!(i%numCols)) tRow = $('<tr>');
tCell = $('<td>').html(data[i]);
$('table').append(tRow.append(tCell));
});
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