var $col = $('#row1 td') will give you a collection of all td under
row1, then you can filter by first, last, or even use ordianal positon
like $col[0] etc.On Nov 5, 11:59 am, Jared_T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to access a td text value, as shown in the javascript > below. The easiet way to solve this problem would be to give each td > id value a unique identifier (i.e. td id="row1_col1") Is it possible > to access the td element of a tr with a unique tr id tag without > naming each td id uniquely? I'm new to this, I pasted the code as an > example of what I'm trying to do. All the attempts in the javascript > below failed. > > <html> > <head> > <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js";></script> > </head> > <body> > > <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" border="1"> > <tr id="row1"> > <td id="col1">1</td> > <td id="col2">2</td> > </tr> > <tr id="row2"> > <td id="col1">3</td> > <td id="col2">4</td> > </tr> > </table><br /> > > <script type="text/javascript"> > str01 = $("#row1 > col1").text(); > document.write("row1 col1 value is: " + str01 + "<br />"); > str02 = $("#row1.col1").text(); > document.write("row1 col1 value is: " + str02 + "<br />"); > //str03 = $("#row1").("#col1").text(); > //document.write("row1 col1 value is: " + str03 + "<br />"); > //str04 = $("#col1").text(("#row1").text()); > //document.write("row1 col1 value is: " + str04 + "<br />"); > </script> > </body> > </html>
