MVC :: Dynamically Constructing A Table Of Results?

I need to implement a search page where a user will be able to specify some search criteria and perform a search. It's a requirement that the results are displayed on the same page, beneath the search criteria.

Here's the code for the controller class:

[Code]....

For simplicity, the table string above is hard coded but would be constructed dynamically in the real code.
I also have the following form defined In the body of my html:

[Code]....

Finally, I'm using JQuery to hijack the submission of the form and to request the html for the table:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("form[action$='GetTableData']").submit(function() {
$.post($(this).attr("action"), $(this).serialize(), function(response) {
$("#tablePanel").html(response);
});
return false;
});
})
</script>

I'm fairly new to ASP.NET and MVC but the thing that slightly bothers me is that the html is generated in the code-behind for the view.