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I am just working on my first live jQuery project and I could use a little advice.

The project is displaying a table of products (cakes in this case) + an image and description of the current product.  When the page loads the first product in the list is selected but when the user hovers over a different item in the product list the displayed details change.

The jQuery code below works but it isn't very elegant and I would like to improve it.  The code to highlight the product is largely duplicated so I think it should be in a function (but I couldn't get that to work properly) and I had trouble selecting the first item in the table (hence the messy :first code in the first section).

2. /*
3. * jquery for bake_to_order.php page 
4. */
5. $(document).ready(function() {
6. /*
7. * Highlight first product in table and display img + text
8. */
9.   $('#product_table tbody > tr:first').ready(function(){ 
10.       $('#product_table tbody > tr:first').addClass('current_product_row') 
11.  var productImage = 'images/' + $(this).find('.product_image_url:first').text()  
12.  var productDescription = $(this).find('.product_description:first').text() 
13.    $("#current_img").attr({
14.        src: productImage,
15.   alt: productDescription
16.   }) 
17.  $("#current_description").text(productDescription) 
18.  }) ;
19. /*
20. * When user hovers over a different product highlight that and display associated img + text
21. */
22.   $('#product_table tbody > tr').hover(function() {           
23.       $('.current_product_row').removeClass('current_product_row');
24.       $(this).addClass('current_product_row');
25.  var productImage = 'images/' + $(this).find('.product_image_url').text(); 
26.  var productDescription = $(this).find('.product_description').text(); 
27.    $("#current_img").attr({
28.        src: productImage,
29.   alt: productDescription
30.   });
31.  $("#current_description").text(productDescription);
32.  });
33.     });

Can anyone offer a nicer way of doing this?  I would like to be writing nice clean jQuery code rather than just code that sort of works.

Mark