Re: [jQuery] Changing background color of table cells

[Karl Swedberg]

I'd try something like this:

$('#Directorships td:nth-child(1)').filter(function() {
  return $(this).text() == 'D';
}).addClass('bgHighlight');
Change the 1 in :nth-child(1) to whatever column you want. nth-child  
is 1-indexed, so the first cell in a row would be :nth-child(1), the  
second :nth-child(2) and so on.
If it's the first or last column that you want highlighted, you could  
use :first-child or :last-child, respectively.

--Karl

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Karl Swedberg
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www.learningjquery.com




On Dec 5, 2009, at 12:50 PM, evanbu...@gmail.com wrote:

I have a table with an id of Directorships and I want to add the class
bgHighlight to any cell with a value of 'D'. This code below works
fine for an entire table but I just want to apply this logic to a
single column of the same table rather than the whole table.  Thanks.

$('#Directorships tr').each(function() {
 $('td', this).each(function() {
        if ($(this).text() == "D")
                $(this).addClass("bgHighlight");
        });
});