How to get text from the first column in a table?

Question

There is a table in a webpage (in my case, http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/api_index) and I want to obtain all the method names in Stable APIs. So I want to get an array, the elements of which are the things in the first column.

How to do it?

$("table:eq(5) tr td:eq(0)")

this code does not work, because it does not get text from all the first td elements in all rows, but only in one row. What to do?

Answer 1

You can use the :first-child selector (http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_firstchild.asp), it'll select the first table cell for each row.

Answer 2

you can try

$(table).find('td:first').text() //can you table id or class

can iterate in a loop for all rows to get first cell value

 var array = new Array();

$('table tr').each(function () {
    var firstCell = $(this).find('td').first();
    array.push($firstCell.text());
});

Answer 3

var array = [];

jQuery('table tr').each(function () {
    var $row = $(this);
    var $firstCell = $row.find('td:first');
    array.push($firstCell.text());
});

Answer 4

Try:

var a = new Array();

$("table:eq(5) tr td:first-child").each(
    function(){
        a.push($(this).text())
    });

Answer 5

You can loop through all the table rows like this:

$("#tableId > tbody > tr").each(function(){
    var name = $(this).find("td:first").text();
    console.log("Method name: "+name);
});

You can initialize an array globally and save in that array in loop. Hope this helps.