Cycling through table cells

[sdustinh]

Hey, I'm not as familiar with JavaScript as I'd like to be so I need a little bit of help with a problem I've got. I've got a table that I need to cycle through and gather what is on the inside of each cell, and store them into something like an array.

The table has an undetermined amount of rows (they can be created by the user) but it has 8 cells within each row I need to get the contents out of. I'd like to put it all into an array, something like this:

var aVariable = new Array();
aVariable[0] = "/boot|ext3|1234|no|no|-|-|-";

Then I need to take each string in the array and break it apart. I don't really need help with this, I've got that figured out, but I just can't figure out how to cycle through the table rows and cells to put the information into the array. So far I've come up with something like this:

for (var x = 1; x < totalHD; x++) {
        var theTableID = document.getElementById("hdpart-" + x);
        var theTableRow = theTableID.tBodies[0].getElementsByTagName("tr");
        var theTableCell = theTableID.tBodies[0].theTableRow.getElementsByTagName("td");
 
 
 
    }

totalHD is the number of tables, then within those tables it needs to go through each row and collect the information from each cell. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks!

[gits]

hi ...

getElementsByTa gName returns a node list so you have to loop through the table rows and retrieve the table-cells for every row. now loop through the cells and retrieve the needed values ... you may push them into arrays or use an object as a table-values list. when you have parsed all tables you may calculate with the retrieved values or whatever ... you may do the calculation even during parsing ...

kind regards

[sdustinh]

Got it! Pretty simple, I just make it a lot harder for some reason. Thanks!

[gits]

hi ...

glad to hear you got it working ... post back to the forum anytime you have more questions ...

kind regards