Thanks, though that didn't work for me, though it could be more my
page doesn't match my example totally. Though I did just come up with
this, and this seems to work:
$('.activity_date:first').html() ;
On Feb 12, 11:21 am, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> $("#recent_activity tbody tr td.date:first").text();
>
> On Feb 12, 9:13 am, Mark Steudel <msteu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a table like so:
>
> > <table id="recent_activity">
> > <thead>
> > <tr>
> > <th>t1</th>
> > <th>t2</th>
> > </tr>
> > </thead>
> > <tbody>
> > <tr>
> > <td>value</td>
> > <td class="date">2008-09-01</td> <--- want this content
> > </tr>
> > <tr>
> > <td>value</td>
> > <td class="date">2008-09-01</td>
> > </tr>
> > </tbody>
> > </table>
>
> > And I want to try and get the first td with class date, I've tried the
> > following and I get close, but I think I'm just missing something
> > easy:
>
> > $('#recent_activity tbody:first-child .activity_date').val(); <--
> > returns undefined
>
> > or
>
> > $('#recent_activity tbody:first-child .activity_date').html(); <--
> > returns null
>
> > Thoughts? Better way?
>
> > Thanks
