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Fairly easy yet i did not find how to do this online.

I want the first TD of the this element (row)

$(document).on("click", "#posTable tr", function() { 

    alert($(this).('td:first').text());

});

i tried:

alert($(this).('td:first').text());
alert($('td:first', $(this).parents('tr')).text()));

Fairly easy yet i did not find how to do this online.

I want the first TD of the this element (row)

$(document).on("click", "#posTable tr", function() { 

    alert($(this).('td:first').text());

});

i tried:

alert($(this).('td:first').text());
alert($('td:first', $(this).parents('tr')).text()));

• javascript
• jquery
• html

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• $(this).find('td:first') – Ramesh Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 11:38
• possible duplicate of Jquery- Get the value of first td in table – Daniel Klöck Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 11:41

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You need to use find() to get the first td in the given row. You can also pass this in selector as a context.

Using find()

alert($(this).find('td:first').text());

Using jQuery( selector [, context ] )

alert($('td:first', this).text());