My goal is to find those tags with a class of .ht_nestingParent and then add a blank table row above the .ht_nestingParent and then a blank row under the last of it's children rows; which are the rows below that lack the .ht_nestingParent class.

Here is my HTML

2.             <tbody>
3. <tr>
4. <th class="ht_nestingLevels ht_nestingParent"><div class="relative"><span class="rowHeader">1</span>
5. <div class="ht_nestingButton ht_nestingCollapse"></div>
6. </div></th>
7. <td class="">7-ELEVEN</td>
8. <td class="">22971161</td>
9. <td class=""></td>
10. <td class=""></td>
11. <td class=""></td>
12. <td class=""></td>
13. <td class=""></td>
14. </tr>
15. <tr>
16. <th class="ht_nestingLevels ht__highlight"><div class="relative"><span class="ht_nestingLevel_empty"></span><span class="rowHeader">2</span></div></th>
17. <td class="current highlight"></td>
18. <td class=""></td>
19. <td class="">A</td>
20. <td class="">SOUTH MOD 67 ID FACE||7-11 OKLAHOMA COLORS||95-5/8 X 96-3/4||DWG: SO1067RF.OK (102138)||</td>
21. <td class="">4</td>
22. <td class="">2020-02-20</td>
23. <td class="">2020-01-24</td>
24. </tr>
25. <tr>
26. <th class="ht_nestingLevels ht_nestingParent"><div class="relative"><span class="rowHeader">3</span>
27. <div class="ht_nestingButton ht_nestingCollapse"></div>
28. </div></th>
29. <td class="">7-ELEVEN</td>
30. <td class="">22983321</td>
31. <td class=""></td>
32. <td class=""></td>
33. <td class=""></td>
34. <td class=""></td>
35. <td class=""></td>
36. </tr>
37. </tbody>

I'm so new to complex jQuery..or what seems complex to me. Here's a function I was trying to write using the .each method.

2.         $(document).ready(function() {
3. $('.htCore tbody tr th.ht_nestingParent').each(function (i) {
4. $val = $(this).html();
5. alert($val);
6. });
7. });

I don't think my function is right...it's not doing anything. But, isn't there a way to use selectors more thoroughly than I currently am to find the <th> with .ht_nestingParent and the subsequent children below it until it finds the next <th> with .ht_nestingParent?