I am very new to jQuery and JavaScript.
I have a small question.
Let's say i have a HTML table like the following
<Table id="mytable">
<tr id="element">
<td>value</td>
<td>text</td>
</tr>
</Table>
In the above example i know the row id and i want to change the value of the second column of the row with that particular id.
I need a result something like the following:
<Table id="mytable">
<tr id="element">
<td>value</td>
<td>ChangedText</td>
</tr>
</Table>
So my question is: how can I select the 2nd column of the first row with a given id in order to change the value?
$("#element td:nth-child(2)").text('ChangedText');
Here's an example.
something like
$('#mytable tr:eq(0) td:eq(1)').text('ChangedText');
will select the first row, second column (0 based) of the given element (TABLE). In your case, since you know the row id :
$('#mytable #element td:eq(1)').text('ChangedText');
or simply
$('#element td:eq(1)').text('ChangedText');
Gert's code is how I would have implemented what you are asking so I won't repost it. However since you are new to jquery/javascript, you might like this tool I use to make sure my selectors are working http://www.woods.iki.fi/interactive-jquery-tester.html.
Cheers,
Joe