I want to get each cell value from an HTML table using JavaScript when pressing submit button.
How to get HTML table cell values?
You can get cell value with JS even when click on the cell:
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<head>
<title>Search students by courses/professors</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function ChangeColor(tableRow, highLight)
{
if (highLight){
tableRow.style.backgroundColor = '00CCCC';
}
else{
tableRow.style.backgroundColor = 'white';
}
}
function DoNav(theUrl)
{
document.location.href = theUrl;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table id = "c" width="180" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<% for (Course cs : courses){ %>
<tr onmouseover="ChangeColor(this, true);"
onmouseout="ChangeColor(this, false);"
onclick="DoNav('http://localhost:8080/Mydata/ComplexSearch/FoundS.jsp?courseId=<%=cs.getCourseId()%>');">
<td name = "title" align = "center"><%= cs.getTitle() %></td>
</tr>
<%}%>
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</body>
I wrote the HTML table in JSP. Course is is a type. For example Course cs, cs= object of type Course which had 2 attributes: id, title. courses is an ArrayList of Course objects.
The HTML table displays all the courses titles in each cell. So the table has 1 column only: Course1 Course2 Course3 ...... Taking aside:
onclick="DoNav('http://localhost:8080/Mydata/ComplexSearch/FoundS.jsp?courseId=<%=cs.getCourseId()%>');"
This means that after user selects a table cell, for example "Course2", the title of the course- "Course2" will travel to the page where the URL is directing the user: http://localhost:8080/Mydata/ComplexSearch/FoundS.jsp
. "Course2" will arrive in FoundS.jsp page. The identifier of "Course2" is courseId. To declare the variable courseId, in which CourseX will be kept, you put a "?" after the URL and next to it the identifier.
I told you just in case you'll want to use it because I searched a lot for it and I found questions like mine. But now I found out from teacher so I post where people asked.
The example is working.I've seen.
<td class="virtualTd" onclick="putThis(this)">my td value </td>
function putThis(control) {
alert(control.innerText);
}
You can also use the DOM way to obtain the cell value: Cells[0].firstChild.data
Read more on that in my post at http://js-code.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-change-html-table-cell-value.html
function Vcount() {
var modify = document.getElementById("C_name1").value;
var oTable = document.getElementById('dataTable');
var i;
var rowLength = oTable.rows.length;
for (i = 1; i < rowLength; i++) {
var oCells = oTable.rows.item(i).cells;
if (modify == oCells[0].firstChild.data) {
document.getElementById("Error").innerHTML = " * duplicate value";
return false;
break;
}
}
Here is perhaps the simplest way to obtain the value of a single cell.
document.querySelector("#table").children[0].children[r].children[c].innerText
where r is the row index and c is the column index
Therefore, to obtain all cell data and put it in a multi-dimensional array:
var tableData = [];
Array.from(document.querySelector("#table").children[0].children).forEach(function(tr){tableData.push(Array.from(tr.children).map(cell => cell.innerText))});
var cell = tableData[1][2];//2nd row, 3rd column
To access a specific cell's data in this multi-dimensional array, use the standard syntax: array[rowIndex][columnIndex].
I found this as an easiest way to add row . The awesome thing about this is that it doesn't change the already present table contents even if it contains input elements .
row = `<tr><td><input type="text"></td></tr>`
$("#table_body tr:last").after(row) ;
Here #table_body
is the id of the table body tag .