I'll give your idea a try. I am learning jQuery (albeit slowly).
Thanks for your help.
JAS
On Feb 2, 11:01 pm, Ricardo Tomasi <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can also write your own methods, that's the beauty of jQuery:
>
> jQuery.fn.getCell = function(x,y){
> return jQuery( this[0].rows[y].cells[x] );
>
> };
>
> $('#myTable').getCell(5,1).html('New content');
>
> - ricardo
>
> On Feb 2, 7:25 pm, "Michael Geary" <m...@mg.to> wrote:
>
> > That didn't work because .html is a method, not a property you can set. This
> > would have a better chance of working:
>
> > $('#myTable tr:eq(4) td:eq(3)').html( 'new text' );
>
> > But what was wrong with your original code? It looked fine to me (except for
> > the "var oCell =" part - that doesn't look right, since it sounds like
> > you're expecting oCell to be a reference to the column element when it will
> > actually be the text string).
>
> > And I suspect that the integer row and column numbers will probably not be
> > hard coded numbers in the actual code, but variables, right? So your actual
> > jQuery code might be something more like:
>
> > $( '#myTable tr:eq(' + y + ') td:eq(' + x + ')' ).html( text );
>
> > Instead of all that, you could use jQuery just as a shortcut for the
> > document.getElementById() call and keep the rest of your code. And since
> > you're probably doing a number of jQuery and DOM operations on the table,
> > let's cache the table's jQuery object and DOM element in a pair of
> > variables:
>
> > var $myTable = $('#myTable'), myTable = $myTable[0];
> > // ...and later...
> > myTable.rows[y].cells[x].innerHTML = text;
>
> > This is both simpler and cleaner than the :eq() selector, and it's likely to
> > be much faster too.
>
> > -Mike
>
> > > From: JAS
>
> > > Well I tried:
>
> > > $("#myTable tr:eq(4) td:eq(3)").html = "new text";
>
> > > and, while it gave no error, it also produced no result.
>
> > > Any other ideas?
>
> > > JAS
>
> > > On Feb 2, 5:15 pm, ksun <kavi.sunda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > try $("#myTable tr:eq(4) td:eq(1)").html() for the 5th row and 2nd
> > > > column
>
> > > > On Feb 2, 5:46 am, JAS <james.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > I am (very) new to jQuery, and I have what I think must
> > > be a simple
> > > > > question.
>
> > > > > Without jQuery, I would write:
>
> > > > > var oCell = document.getElementById('myTable').rows[5].cells
> > > > > [2].innerHTML = "something new";
>
> > > > > but I do not understand how to write this same line in jQuery.
>
> > > > > Thanks to anyone who can help.
>
> > > > > JAS
