var textFromTD = $("search").select("tr td:first-child").pluck
("innerHTML");
On Nov 21, 12:32 pm, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> another idea, you might try selectors -
>
> a) if you can put a class on the td cells you are interested in, call
> the class cell1 for instance <td class="cell1">, then reference it
> with
>
> $$('#search tbody tr td.cell1').each(function(e){ ...
> e.innerHTML ...});
>
> b) as SWilk said use nth-child, but employing $$ to save a bit of
> clutter
>
> $$('#search tbody tr > td:nth-child(1)').each(function(e){ ...
> e.innerHTML ...});
>
> --Jay
>
> On Nov 20, 7:18 pm, Jlopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying to get the text from the first <TD> of every <TR> in the
> > <TBODY> of my table.
> > To make it trickier I also would lke unique items.
>
> > This is what I have so far that works, but I feel like there should be
> > a cleaner way of doing it.
>
> > My table id is 'search'
> > I want to dump the contents into a div named 'distinct'
>
> > var events = new Array();
> > var rows2 = $('search').down('tbody').childElements();
>
> > rows2.each(
> > function(e) {
>
> > if (e.down('td').down('a').innerHTML.toLowerCase().include
> > (sk.toLowerCase()))
> > {
> > events.push(e.down('td').down('a').innerHTML);
> > }
> > }
> > );
>
> > rows2.clear();
>
> > events.uniq().each(function(e) {
> > $('distinct').insert(e);
> > });
>
> > events.clear();
>
> > Thanks,
> > Joel
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