My solutions in one of my own sites, with a table:
$.getJSON("sections/view_numbers_update.php", function(data) {
$.each(data, function(index, objNumber) {
$('#tr_' + objNumber.intID).find("td").eq(3).html(objNumber.datLastCalled);
$('#tr_' + objNumber.intID).find("td").eq(4).html(objNumber.strStatus);
$('#tr_' + objNumber.intID).find("td").eq(5).html(objNumber.intDuration);
$('#tr_' + objNumber.intID).find("td").eq(6).html(objNumber.blnWasHuman);
});
});
sections/view_numbers_update.php Returns something like:
[{"intID":"19","datLastCalled":"Thu, 10 Jan 13 08:52:20 +0000","strStatus":"Completed","intDuration":"0:04 secs","blnWasHuman":"Yes","datModified":1357807940},
{"intID":"22","datLastCalled":"Thu, 10 Jan 13 08:54:43 +0000","strStatus":"Completed","intDuration":"0:00 secs","blnWasHuman":"Yes","datModified":1357808079}]
HTML table:
<table id="table_numbers">
<tr>
<th>[...]</th>
<th>[...]</th>
<th>[...]</th>
<th>Last Call</th>
<th>Status</th>
<th>Duration</th>
<th>Human?</th>
<th>[...]</th>
</tr>
<tr id="tr_123456">
[...]
</tr>
</table>
This essentially gives every row a unique id preceding with 'tr_' to allow for other numbered element ids, at server script time. The jQuery script then just gets this TR_[id] element, and fills the correct indexed cell with the json return.
The advantage is you could get the complete array from the DB, and either foreach($array as $record) to create the table html, OR (if there is an update request) you can die(json_encode($array)) before displaying the table, all in the same page, but same display code.