Locating a TD inside of a TR.

[sdustinh]

This is really simple, I almost feel bad for posting it.

var theTable = document.getElementById("hdpart-" + (x+1));
        var theTableCell = theTable.tBodies[0].getElementsByTagName("td");
        var theTableRow = theTable.tBodies[0].getElementsByTagName("tr");

instead of theTableCell pointing to every <td> tag in the table, I need it to only return the <td> inside of the <tr>. I was thinking something like

var theTableCell = theTableRow.getElementsByTagName("td");

but that didn't work. Does anyone know what this would be? Thanks.

[pbmods]

Heya, sdustinh.

Changed thread title to better describe the problem (did you know that threads whose titles do not follow the Posting Guidelines actually get FEWER responses?).

How about this:

var theTableCell = theTableRow.getElementsByTagName("td")[0];
 

Note the 's' in getElementsByTagName().

[sdustinh]

Sorry, I was in a hurry and just didn't think about the title.

I tried changing it over to that, but I still get an "Value undefined (result of expression theTableRow.getElementsByTagName) is not an object" error.

var theTable = document.getElementById("hdpart-" + (x+1));
        var theTableRow = theTable.tBodies[0].getElementsByTagName("tr");
        var theTableCell = theTableRow.getElementsByTagName("td")[0];

What I'm doing is searching a specific table, then pulling all of the rows from that table, and within those rows, I need to pull the cell information from the specific rows. I've got everything set up, but right now using "theTable.tBodies[0].getElementsByTagName("td")" it searches through all the tables TD elements.

So if there are 2 rows with 9 cells in each table, and I use theTableCell.length I get 54 returned rather than the 18 I was expecting. I just can't figure out how to point it to that specific row.

Thanks for the help!

[iam_clint]

var theTableRow = theTable.tBodies[0].getElementsByTagName("tr")[need something here];

[sdustinh]

Awesome, that got it! I had to rearrange somet things and it's not as pretty as I'd hoped... but it works now, so that's all that matters. Thanks a lot!