So on the selector question, is there any jQuery selector that would enable
me to limit the "search" to a single table column?
Daemach wrote:
>
> In my ongoing quest to master jQuery I had an itch to write a table
> filtering mechanism. I'm going for speed and elegance here so I want this
> to work fast enough to bind to a keyup event without bogging down even on
> long tables. Using DOM coding if I wanted to search the 3rd column only I
> would loop over oTable.rows[i].cells[2] to find the values. jQuery's
> selectors are pretty generalized, so I'm wondering if there is a jQuery
> selector that is equally efficient.
>
> $("td:nth-child(3)", "#mytbody#") perhaps? Some kind of xpath expression?
>
> If I had a text field in the table header row, what would be the easiest
> way to figure out what column it was in so I could pass that to the
> selector?
>
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