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How to obtain text of a <td> element from another <td> element with jquery

I am trying to use a button inside a table division to set a variable as the same value as another division in the same row, but whenever I run my code (below), it returns the value of all the table divisions concatenated together. I am unsure why this was happening, so I replaced '.children()' with 'childnodes[0]' to try and get only the first name, but this just doesn't work and I don't why.
My html looks like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>Doe</td>
<td><button>Get First Name</button></td>
</tr>
</table>
And my Javascript is this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("button").click(function(){
var first = $(this).closest("tr").childNodes[0].text();
alert(first)
})
});

set a variable as the same value as another division in the same row
there are lots of possibilities for this, here are some (with the most useful first (opinion based))
$("button").click(function() {
var first = $(this).closest("tr").find("td:first").text();
var first = $(this).closest("tr").find("td").first().text();
var first = $(this).closest("tr").find("td").eq(0).text();
var first = $(this).closest("tr").children().first().text();
var first = $(this).closest("tr").children().eq(0).text();
var first = $(this).closest("td").siblings().first().text();
});
it returns the value of all the table cells concatenated together
https://api.jquery.com/text
Get the combined text contents of each element in the set of matched elements, including their descendants, or set the text contents of the matched elements.
because you're passing the "tr" to text() it gets the text of all the cells (tds) and their content etc and combines them as one, so you need to limit to the first as you've attempted.
however .childNodes[0] can only be applied to a DOM element/node, while $(this).closest("tr") gives you a jquery object/collection, which doesn't have .childNodes property.
So the jquery equivalent would be to use .children().eq(0).

You could use class identifiers to get information you need as well.
<table>
<tr>
<td><span class="first-name">John</span></td>
<td><span class="last-name">Doe</span></td>
<td>
<button class="btn-get-data" data-class="first-name">Get First Name</button>
<button class="btn-get-data" data-class="last-name">Get Last Name</button>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".btn-get-data").click(function() {
$btn = $(this);
$tr = $btn.closest('tr');
var first = $tr.find('.' + $btn.attr('data-class')).html();
alert(first);
})
});
If you make the button click generic like so, you can add additional buttons on the page and use that to get the class within that row.
Here is a working fiddle example: https://jsfiddle.net/b1r0nucq/

you could find the :first child and get his html(), as below:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("button").click(function() {
var first = $(this).closest("tr").children(":first").html();
alert(first)
})
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table>
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>Doe</td>
<td><button>Get First Name</button></td>
</tr>
</table>

Check if variable exists in a html table with javascript

I have two tables at the moment. What Im looking to achieve is to select a row in one table, obtain the "filename" field from that and then check if that filename exists in the other table. If the file exists in both tables I want to change the colour of my progress tracker. Right now I have the selecting of the row working, but I can't seem to check it against the other table. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
HTML:
<table id="table">
<tr>
<td>--</td>
<td>Filename</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Example1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Example2</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table id="table2">
<tr>
<td>--</td>
<td>Filename</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Example1</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="words">
</div>
JavaScript:
$("#table").find("tr").click(function(){
$(this).addClass('selected').siblings().removeClass('selected');
var value=$(this).find('td:nth-child(2)').html();
//alert(value);
document.getElementById("words").innerHTML = value;
});
Thanks again for the help!

$("#table").on('click','tr',function(){ // <-- #1
var $this = $(this), // <-- #2
filename = $this.find('td:nth-child(2)').text(), // <-- #3
$words = $('#words');
$this.addClass('selected').siblings().removeClass('selected');
$words.html(filename).css('color','black');
if ( valueInTable('table2', 1, filename ) ){ // <-- #4
$words.css('color', 'blue');
}
});
function valueInTable(tableID, columnNum, searchString){
var found = false;
$( '#' + tableID + ' tr td:nth-child(' + columnNum + ')' ).each(function(){
if ($(this).text() == searchString ){
found = true;
return false;
}
});
return found;
}
This is important, this binds the event to the table. When a click occurs somewhere inside the table it checks the event registry, in this case, it checks to see if a TR was clicked. This is both a performance gain, since you're not creating an event for each row of the table, but also if you create new rows dynamically, you don't have to create a new event when you do. You create this event once and it's in place for all new/old rows of the table
Cache $(this) into a variable. You use it more than once and chances are you'll use it even more. You should not create a new jQuery object every time you want to refer to $(this), so stick it in a variable and reuse that
While .html() may work for you, if you have other embedded HTML, you might get values you were not intending (e.g., <span>filename</span>), for that reason, you only need .text(), which will just give you the text value and strip off all the nested HTML (leaving you with only filename)
Using a function comes with a penalty, but it's good to put long-logic elsewhere, in case you're doing anything more involved. For instance, your table could expand in width (number of columns) and you might also want to search them for a value, or you might have more tables you want to look in; this same function can be used for both of those cases.
as noted, the :contains() selector was built for what you're after However, there is one caveat. The problem with contains is that it lacks customization. If you want to modify your comparison to be a RegEx, or if you want to perform other manipulation using trim or truncate, you can't do that with contains. You could easily modify the code below to do: $.trim( $(this).text() ) == $.trim( searchString )

As #Pete commented, you can use if ($('#table2 td:contains(' + value + ')').length) as follows
$("#table").find("tr").click(function(){
$(this).addClass('selected').siblings().removeClass('selected');
var value=$(this).find('td:nth-child(2)').html();
//alert(value);
if ($('#table2 td:contains(' + value + ')').length) {
document.getElementById("words").innerHTML = value;
} else {
document.getElementById("words").innerHTML = "false";
}
});
See the JSFiddle for working example: https://jsfiddle.net/v14L4bqr/

Highlight some rows of my table in javascript

I need to highlight some rows of my table. This highlight is based on the rows present in my response object. This object can be as follow:
<table id="ListRequests" class="table table-striped">
<tbody>
<tr id="13955">
<td>JEAN DUPONT</td>
<td>ACLIMEX SPRL</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Here is my javascript code:
var id = $("tbody tr", response).attr('id');
var cols = $('#' + id + ' td');
cols.effect("highlight", {}, 30000);
This works fine only if my response object contains only 1 row. Now I need to be able to highlight more than 1 rows at a time. So for example with the response object below:
<table id="ListRequests" class="table table-striped">
<tbody>
<tr id="13955">
<td>JEAN DUPONT</td>
<td>ACLIMEX SPRL</td>
</tr>
<tr id="13954">
<td>MIKE GIVER</td>
<td>ARGO INTERNATIONAL CORP</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Any idea how to adapt my javascript code for that purpose ?

If you really want to do it the way you are doing it, than you need to use each
var trs = $("tbody tr", response);
trs.each( function () {
var id = this.id,
cols = $('#' + id + ' td');
cols.effect("highlight", {}, 30000);
});
Better off returning a JSON object with ids to select.

attr returns a single value, regardless how many elements are matched by the proceeding selector.
If you want to map every selected element to an ID and return array, you need map:
var ids = $("tbody tr", response).map(function (i, e) { return $(e).attr('id'); });
Once you have your list of IDs, you can iterate over that list, and highlight the matching rows in the DOM:
ids.forEach(function (id) {
var cols = $('#' + id + ' td');
cols.effect("highlight", {}, 30000);
});

Here is a working snippet.
The idea is to scrap the ids from the response you get by looping the tr nodes, from these ids build a css selector for the nodes you are interested in, and finally highlight all them.
function highlight(response){
// retrieve the ids from the response
var ids = $(response).find("tbody tr").map(function(){
// `this` will be the trs one after the other.
// `map` will put all returned values in an array.
return this.getAttribute("id");
}).get();
// build the css selector
var selector = "#" + ids.join(",#");
// highlight the corresponding nodes
$(selector).effect("highlight", {}, 30000);
}
// Call highlight with your response example.
highlight('<table id="ListRequests" class="table table-striped"><tbody><tr id="13955"><td>JEAN DUPONT</td><td>ACLIMEX SPRL</td></tr><tr id="13954"><td>MIKE GIVER</td><td>ARGO INTERNATIONAL CORP</td></tr></tbody></table>');
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<table id="ListRequests" class="table table-striped">
<tbody>
<tr id="13955">
<td>JEAN DUPONT</td>
<td>ACLIMEX SPRL</td>
</tr>
<tr id="13954">
<td>MIKE GIVER</td>
<td>ARGO INTERNATIONAL CORP</td>
</tr>
<tr id="1211">
<td>OTHER ONE</td>
<td>MUSN'T BE HIGHLIGHTED</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

jQuery sort custom table

I'm working on a small userscript to sort a table, the structure of the table is really weird however. What i'm trying to do is to add an extra sort feature so I can sort on the ranking (#) of the persons.
Table data looks like this:
<table id="outer">
<tr>
<td><div id="bgn"></div></td>
<td>User 1</td>
<td>
<table id="inner">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Rank</td>
<td id="tdp">#28</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- more rows -->
</table>
There are some additional <td>'s but they are not important right now. There are about 52 rows, but these could vary, of course.
Current jQuery code I have:
jQuery( document ).ready(function() {
var rankings = [];
$(document).on('click', '#tdr', function() {
// skipping first line because it's the header
$('tr:not(:first-child').each(function () {
var rank = $(this).find('#tdp').text();
var rank2 = rank.substring(1, rank.length)
rankings.push(rank2);
});
console.log(rankings.sort(sortNumber));
});
function sortNumber(num1, num2) {
return num1 - num2;
}
});
JS Bin Example
The output in the console is a correctly sorted array with all the rankings, I just don't have any idea how to also swap the corresponding <tr>'s so that the table get's rebuild the right way. Looking for any tips or pointers!

This suggestion is not really into "sorting" the rows, but re-constructing the table with the sorted rows. But this should do the job:
rankings = rankings.sort(sortNumber);
var table = $('<table></table>');
for (var i = 0; i < rankings.length; i++) {
var row = $('tr').filter(function() {
var rank = $(this).find('#tdp').text();
return rank.substring(1, rank.length) == i;
});
table.append(row);
}
$('#originalTable').html(table.html());

JQuery loop through table get ID and change values in a specific column

I have a page with 2-3 tables. In those tables I want to change the text of a specific column located in <thead> and also a value in each <td> line, and I would like to get the id from each line.
What is the fastest way to do this, performance-wise?
HTML
Table-Layout:
<table class="ms-viewtable">
<thead id="xxx">
<tr class ="ms-viewheadertr">
<th>
<th>
<tbody>
<tr class="ms-itmHover..." id="2,1,0">
<td>
<td>
<tr class="ms-itmHover..." id="2,2,0">
<td>
<td>
</table>
JavaScript
Script with that I started:
$('.ms-listviewtable').each(function () {
var table = $(this);
$table.find('tr > th').each(function () {
//Code here
});
$table.find('tr > td').each(function () {
//Code here
});
How can I get the Id? Is this there a better way to do what I want?

You can get the id of an element by calling .attr on "id" i.e. $(this).attr("id");.

In jquery the best way to get to any element is by giving it an ID, and referencing it.
I would structure it the other way around - give the table elements meaningful IDs, and then put the information that I'd like to retrieve in their class attributes.
<tr id="ms-itmHover..." class="2,2,0">
And then retrieve it as follows: $('#ms-itmHover...').attr('class');

You can get the IDs by "mapping" from table row to associated ID thus:
var ids = $table.find('tbody > tr').map(function() {
return this.id;
}).get();
You can access individual cells using the .cells property of the table row:
$table.each('tbody > tr', function() {
var cell = this.cells[i]; // where 'i' is desired column number
...
});

Go thru all tables, collect all rows and locate their identifiers by your needs:
$('table.ms-viewtable').each(function(){
$(this).find('tr').each(function(){
var cells = $(this).children(); //all cells (ths or tds)
if (this.parentNode.nodeName == 'THEAD') {
cells.eq(num).html('header row '+this.parentNode.id);
} else { // in "TBODY"
cells.eq(num).html('body row '+this.id);
}
});
});
jsfiddle