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Method of getting table cell text not working , please help.

in Using jQuery • 10 years ago

hi all,

i have a jqgrid table and I'm trying to get the text "Love Seat" from the td that is identified by the attribute [aria-describedby="tab3-grid_137_t_wi.ItemName"].

The table looks like the following:

<tr id="171" class="ui-widget-content jqgrow ui-row-ltr" role="row" tabindex="-1">
<td aria-describedby="tab3-grid_137_t_wi.ItemName" title="Love Seat" style="text-align:center;" role="gridcell">Love Seat</td>
</tr>

The method I'm using is:

// this is ok.

row_id = $('#tab3-grid').getGridParam('selrow');

// this is not working.

alert( $('td[tab3-grid_'+row_id+'_t_wi.ItemName]').text() );

but it's not working. What am i doing wrong?

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charlietfl

Re: Method of getting table cell text not working , please help.

10 years ago

several things:

1) You must escape special characters in selectors with "\\"

http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/

2) You are passing an attribute value but not it's name into the selector

http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/attribute-selectors/

Try:

alert( $('td[aria-describedby="tab3-grid_'+row_id+'_t_wi\\.ItemName"]').text() );

nelsonxm

Re: Method of getting table cell text not working , please help.

10 years ago

charlietfl,

Thank you so much - It worked!

It's so easy to get goofed up with the syntax, i don't know how you do it. And, I forgot about escaping special characters in this case even though i've used it many times in my project.

I also appreciate you referencing the jquery docs so i can refresh my memory.

Again... thanks!

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