Template literal loop in javascript

"but that doesn't seem to work" is a bit vague, but of course if you keep the header cells in the same place as your rows, they will show up above each row. You can simply put your opening and closing markup into variables and ouput those before and after actually looping over the data with the row-generating function.

There's also an error in your original markup, with the second opening <tr> being right before its closing counterpart instead of before the corresponding <td> tags.

var petsData = [{
    name: "Purrsloud",
    species: "Cat",
    favFoods: ["wet food", "dry food", "<strong>any</strong> food"],
    birthYear: 2016,
    photo: "https://learnwebcode.github.io/json-example/images/cat-2.jpg"
  },
  {
    name: "Barksalot",
    species: "Dog",
    birthYear: 2008,
    photo: "https://learnwebcode.github.io/json-example/images/dog-1.jpg"
  },
  {
    name: "Meowsalot",
    species: "Cat",
    favFoods: ["tuna", "catnip", "celery"],
    birthYear: 2012,
    photo: "https://learnwebcode.github.io/json-example/images/cat-1.jpg"
  }
];

var tableStart = `
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Species</th>
      <th>Birth Year</th>
      <th>Favorite Foods</th>
    </tr>`;
var tableEnd = `
  </table>`;

function foods(foods) {
  return `
<h4>Favorite Foods</h4>
<ul class="foods-list">
${foods.map(food => `<li>${food}</li>`).join("")}
</ul>
`;
}

function petTemplate(pet) {
  return `
      <tr>
        <td>${pet.name}</td>
        <td>${pet.species }</td>
        <td>${pet.birthYear}</td>
        <td>${pet.favFoods ? foods(pet.favFoods) : ""}</td>
      </tr>
  `;
}

document.getElementById("table").innerHTML = `
  ${tableStart}
  ${petsData.map(petTemplate).join("")}
  ${tableEnd}
`;
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="table"></div>

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