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I'm trying to get the contents of every TD element (there are 5 of them) in a table with index 0 that has matching classes.  To do this, I wrote this:

1. $("tr.dataTableRow>td:eq(0)").each(function (i) {
2.       items[i] = $.trim($(this).text());
   
3. });

This results in only the first element's values being returned. Doing:

1. console.log($("tr.dataTableRow>td:eq(0)").length);

...gives me only "1" but I know there are 5 such elements that should match.  So, I tried rewriting it like this and it gave me all five:

1. $("td:eq(0)", $("tr.dataTableRow")).each(function (i) {
2.       items[i] = $.trim($(this).text());
   
3. });

Why can't I select all the index 0 TD elements under those TR elements using a single query string?